The biography of the killer is Chikatilo

Soviet forensicity also knows other no less cruel characters, but it was the surname Chikatilo that became a household, it was a huge number of films about him, hundreds of books and articles were written. In the special season, the pile of the podkasta "Diaries of Laura Palna" Masha Boglybnyak understands why the image of Chikatilo was so firmly fixed in mass culture.

Listen to special season on all podcasts and on YouTube. Chikatilo, childhood and the Holodomor about the early years, we know quite a lot, but for the most part from the words of the maniac himself. He wrote to investigators a kind of autobiography, which he entitled as follows: “The biography of the defendant Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, a citizen of the USSR, victims of hungry pages and cannibalism and years, Stalinist repressions, stagnation and crisis of perestroika.” Chikatilo as a philologist and a politically saved person could deliberately thicken the colors to cause sympathy.

But, despite this, his childhood was really difficult. He was born on October 16 in the small Ukrainian village of Yablochnoelo in the Sumy region of Ukraine .. Chikatilo said that his parents - both ordinary people, the collective farm workers - almost died of hunger in the early X. This is, most likely, the truth: in and Ukraine, mass hungry covered with different estimates, the number of victims of the Holodomor is from 3.9 to 7 milion people.

The cause of hunger is most often called a repressive for peasants the policy of the grain planting, which was initiated by the Soviet government. In the years, the Verkhovna Rada recognized the Holodomor of the years by the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Chikatilo claimed that his brother was one of the victims of the Holodomor: “In 33, my older brother Stepan ate during the starvation of cannibals.

My mother warned me all the time: do not leave the yard, otherwise they ate Stepan, they will eat you! I sat in the weeds, ate kalachiki, ate it. You sit hungry, look out the window, cry. ” The story about the brother eaten is very doubtful. There are many historical evidence that the time of the Holodomor took place cannibalism: it happened that mothers were sacrificed to the younger children to survive the elders.

Often the victims of cannibalism were the street children who walked around the villages in search of food. But the story of Stepan's brother did not receive any confirmation. There is a version that Mother Chikatilo came up with her for intimidation so that little Andrei would not walk alone: ​​his childhood had to be in the military and post -war years, and it was really dangerous to be on the street unattended.

In the year, when Andrei was 5 years old, his father Roman went to the front. The Germans occupied Sumshchina, the family survived with great difficulty. According to him, he was a shy and shy boy: "If I did not have a pen or ink in the classroom, I just sat at a desk and cried." In the first post -war years, mass hunger again occurred in Ukraine. Chikatilo recalled how he fell into fainting from hunger at school: “I recall how I saw with horror how they took away the dead from hunger - without coffins wrapped in rags; And I heard conversations about cannibalism.

But I stubbornly, until losing consciousness, continued to study. I read many books. ” Chikatilo was really obsessed with studying. Some researchers associate his increased interest in education with the “hypercompensation reaction” Hypercompensation - the desire to overcome their physical or mental inferiority in one part of life and compensate for it through successes in another ..

Attraction or crime: who are pedophiles and how they live in childhood and adolescence, he was not friends with anyone: he was closed, alienated, silent. Many who remember Chikati in those years said that he rarely participated in general games. He was very worried about his myopia, he was always afraid to ask the teacher what was written on the board. But he did not wear glasses to thirty years: he was afraid that they would call a bespectacled man.

In the autobiography, Chikatilo focuses on bullying from classmates: he was teased with a “skeleton”, “sweeping” and “woman”. He wrote about this like this: “Tears of resentment strangled me all my life. I was even shy that I was born. ” An example to other children Chikatilo was always ideological and believed in communism. When Stalin died in the year, Summer Andrei cried and regretted that he could not go to a funeral to Moscow.

He was engaged in public work: in high school, he was the editor of the wall newspaper, sang in the choir, executed all the documentation of the pioneer detachments, painted posters and often sat up until late. Andrei himself terribly envied the peers who "played, rode on the grass and felt girls." He was embarrassed by the girls, did not know how to behave with them. In the m class, he first fell in love with Lily Baryshev, a modest schoolgirl with freckles, who played the role of a partisan in an amateur performance.

Once they went to the cinema together: they sat with their shoulders - only Andrei could afford such a proximity, because he was afraid of everything else. He said that in those days he dreamed of high love and wanted to tame his low urge with the help of labor and sciences. But it did not work. Blue pantalones peered out from under her dress.She asked her sister who was not at home at that time.

I told her about this, but she did not leave. Then I pushed her, fell, and lay down on her. It was under the trees. I did not undress her, did not touch and did not undress myself. But only I lay down on her, as my ejaculation came. ” Feodosia Odechev called the incident Chikatilo called "weakness" and "misfortune." He wrote an oath: “Pizda is an organ of human reproduction.

I swear not to touch a draw except my wife ” - and hid her. Although he did not stop fantasizing sex with elements of sadism. One of the conclusions of the experts of the Serbian Institute says that Chikatilo had a “delay in psychosexual development with fixation at the erotic phase of sexuality formation”-Andrei did not get along with sexuality and sex due to the characteristics of the psyche.

Chikatilo wanted to make a career. In an interview, he talked about the scale of his plans: “From the 9th grade, as Stalin died, I was ready to accept from Stalin the inheritance to be the Secretary General of this party, the entire world communist movement.” Chikatilo wanted to lead the formation of communism around the world. And therefore, after the school that he graduated from “excellent” in all subjects, except for the German language, he decided to enter the most prestigious university in the country - Moscow State University at the Faculty of Law.

Chikatilo passed the exams for “good” and “excellent”, but they didn’t take it: then he returned home and entered the Akhtyr Technical School of Communications, which he graduated a year later with excellent grades. During this period, Chikatilo tried to have sex with different girls several times, but nothing came of the problems with the erection, he talked about this in an interview and in the testimony.

He began to fall into discouraging more often, to think even more about his inferiority, thoughts of suicide came. Chikatilo was saved by his studies: working at a construction site, he entered the correspondence department of the Moscow Electromechanical Institute - at the railway engineer. But he studied only 2 years: he was taken into the army. Then he received work in his specialty - he served communication lines in Berlin, as part of a group of Soviet troops.

Chikatilo and others, ”Yuri Antonyan and Andrei Tkachenko”: “[Chikatilo] was worried about the ridicule of colleagues about the female waist and chest, it was very shy, while in the army he had the first passive homosexual contacts, according to him, violent. After the army, Chikatilo returned to his native village. And there he had a novel, who almost led to marriage: “Where I was born, there was a neighbor’s neighbor, a good girl, modest, however, she got married, well, she was 19 years old, I came from the army at the age of 25, I was so ...

young, high, slender, epaulets of the KGB, I served in Germany, in touch of Moscow-Berlin, I have already entered the party, and we have a peppy and she and her with her. We were friends for 3 months, we had already agreed to get married. ” But, according to Chikatilo, “everything broke”: he could not have sex with the bride, and she told other girls in the village about this.

After gossip flooded all the inhabitants, Chikatilo decided to leave the village. Chikatilo ran to the Rostov region, to the city of Novocherkassk, where he worked for a year at the communications unit. At a new place, things went very well: he worked as an engineer at the telephone station, received a small apartment, bought a farm near the settlement to his parents.

Rodionovka came to my liking: a pretty cozy settlement, a measured life, few people, no one knows about his sexual failures and impotence - and there are new opportunities for realization. In everything, the hot interest of farmers is felt in the affairs of the school. Let the new academic year be a significant step in realizing the dreams of children - to be a necessary, useful beloved homeland!

Everything was fine, the career developed, but personal life - no. Tanya, Andrei's sister, really wanted to find his pretty tall brother wife. And in the end he liked Theodosia Odocheva - a modest working girl from a large family. She was friends with her sister Chikatilo, and she decided to introduce them. In the year, when Andrei was 27 years old, they played a wedding. Then I perceived this as shyness or modesty on his part.

But this condition continued the years of our life together ... He made sexual intercourse no more than once a month. ” A couple of years after the wedding, he entered the philological faculty of Rostov State University with a degree in Russian Language and Literature. He studied at the philological faculty in absentia - he could not quit his job and his family. During his studies, he got children: the daughter of Lyudmila was born in the year, the son of Yuri was born in the year.

And in, at the age of 34, Chikatilo received a coveted university diploma with whom he could go to teachers. Chikatilo begins to work with children for several months, Chikatilo took the nomenclature position of the chairman of the district committee on physical education and sports. During this time, he talked a lot with the champions of schools and youth Spartakiads and realized that he was well in the company of children.

At first he worked as a head teacher, and then a teacher of Russian and literature. As always, Chikatilo worked with full dedication, prepared. But the discipline did not go along: the students, for example, could smoke in his lessons. Chikatilo stood at the board for a long time, laying his hands behind his back and swinging - for this he was called the "Antenna". He was perceived as an eccentric who is in his thoughts, and mocked him.

He seemed sluggish and closed colleagues. Investigative experiment. Photo: The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Rostov Region Chikatilo began to dissolve his hands and pester the children: first, trying to disguise it under ordinary affection, and then everything is frank.