Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian cannibal who killed a Tajik migrant, cut out his heart, and videoed himself frying it with vegetables and eating it, has been allowed to go home to recover from injuries received fighting in Ukraine. He is the latest in a series of cannibals to fight in the war. ⬇️

2/ Dmitry Malyshev was one of a group of three friends who, in December 2013, decided to become bandits in their home district in the Volgograd region. They planned to attack police officers and steal their weapons and ammunition for subsequent attacks.

3/ The plan did not work because they mistimed their attack on a police patrol. Instead, they shot up two men in a car that came along later, but that didn't work either: the car crashed, rolled, and was too badly damaged to steal. The bodies were not discovered for two weeks.

4/ In the meantime, on 16 February 2014, Malyshev had a quarrel with a 46-year-old migrant worker from Tajikistan with whom he had been drinking. The man offered him sex, but this further offended Malyshev, who hit the man over the head with a crowbar four times.

5/ Malyshev then cut out the man's heart with a knife, fried it with vegetables, and ate it, recording the entire process on his phone. "We're frying a human being. Here it is — a heart. I've already added some onion," he says in the video, which was used to convict him.

6/ He later blamed the act on his drunkenness and says he doesn't know why he did it. "You should have asked me 10 years ago, drunk. I don't understand drunk Dima even when I'm sober."

7/ Malyshev was convicted of his crimes and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, comprising 10 in a jail and the remaining 15 in a a maximum security penal colony. He befriended a man named Alexander Maslennikov who killed and dismembered two women he met in a karaoke bar.

8/ The two men, pictured here (Malyshev left, Maslennikov right), decided in October 2023 to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence to join the war in Ukraine as convict soldiers fighting in a Storm V stormtrooper unit.

9/ Malyshev says he wanted to fight to preserve Russia's traditional values. He told an interviewer: "I knew people who came here from the [penal] colony just to change the scenery. Usually they disappear quickly. But I understood why I was going and where I was going."

10/ "How would you feel if your little daughter’s school taught her in elementary school how to put on a condom correctly? Or if men walked down the street and licked each other? Is that normal for you? It’s not normal for me."

11/ Malyshev's presence in the war zone became public in May 2024 when he posted pictures of himself in military uniform on his VK profile. He is said to have been wounded twice, once at the start of 2024 and some time more recently.

12/ Malyshev is currently recuperating in his native village of Rakhinka. The village's head, Fedor Kadovba, says that he has spoken personally to him. "He has problems with his jaw, a fragment in his hand. He is finishing his treatment, I think."

13/ "The day before yesterday I saw him in the store, we said hello. As he told me, he will finish his treatment now and go back to the Special Military Operation zone."

14/ Malyshev is not the first cannibal to go and fight in Ukraine. In November 2023, a similar situation occured with the cannibal serial killer Denis Gorin, who was sent home to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to recover from war wounds.

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15/ Another cannibal, Nikolai Ogolobyak, was also pardoned by a decree of Vladimir Putin and was sent to fight in Ukraine. His fate is not known.

The news of Malyshev's release has had a generally unfavourable reaction on Russian social media, perhaps not surprisingly.

16/ "How do those who are there with him feel if they are wounded and he smells fresh blood...?", one user of the news website asks. Another calls it "surreal. Scary and merciless." A third comments: "The cause for which cannibals fight cannot be noble."V1.RU

17/ A user complains: "Horror! You can't send people like that back to their place. He didn't go there to defend Russia, but to live free afterwards (if he survives) as if he had done nothing..."

18/ One argues: "You can't take people like that to the SVO, what's wrong with their brains? I think the normal guys who are there, to put it mildly, are not happy that there is a monster with a sick psyche in their ranks."

19/ Another user points out that that such things were not done even in Stalin's time: "During the Great Patriotic War, cannibals and dismemberers were not even taken into penal battalions and were not given weapons."

20/ "It seems that the authorities everywhere boast that many volunteers sign up. Why take cannibals if there are enough volunteers?"

21/ As someone else correctly observes in response, "You still had to earn your way into a penal battalion (from a camp, that is) - they didn't take murderers, rapists, various openly antisocial elements, etc. It's a different story now." /end

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