This was not a "loveless marriage" it was an abusive relationship where the woman was treated like a slave and isolated from her family. It is horrific that her suicide attempt was so destructive and the fact that she murdered her innocent children is so tragic.
I discovered this channel fairly recently, and though it's nearly 2 years old, I want to comment on this video. I knew a Turkish family who immigrated to my area just prior to the time of these events. They lived much as they had in Bulgaria. I saw the wife being mistreated by her young sons with encouragement from the boorish, demanding father. The wife explained traditional family life to me. The way Elina, the woman in the story, was treated was not unusual.
Holy shit! That really escalated quickly. Very interesting story, again. Also, just thought I should mention, I LOVE that sound effect when you make a transition in the story 👏
The unfortunate Medea model of going about things. So sad. I remember when the Wall came down...my best friend was in Germany at the time & she brought me a chunk. :) Great work, again! 👍 I'd never heard of this case.
Gosh, this bring back some memories. I was a kid when Soviet Union dissolved. Crazy times. The Soviets had a similar policy after the WWII in regards to females not being executed. Only three women were put to death during that era. A Nazi war criminal nicknamed "Tonia the Machine Gunner", a school cafeteria cook from what is now Ukraine who poisoned scores of schoolchildren and her own brother in law (because he watched too much football). I can't remember her name. The third case was a political one. In the 80s a lady in charge of supplying several state owned cafes and restaurants named Bella Brodsky was charged with embezzlement. She obviously threatened to name names of those even higher, so she was promptly executed.
This one I have little to no recall about. And I know I should but I don’t it’s very interesting and was a very interesting time in history to say the lest. Keep them coming and I will keep listening as always never disappointed in what you bring to us to listen to. Again another glimpse into our past from our inspector Brief Case.
Hi Bill, You will know the next 2, Scotland today & Canada next week. Its strange as I thought most people would have heard of next weeks case but when I asked my focus group none of the 20 had heard of it, strange as I think it is one of Canada's most famous cases.
She was clearly not in her right mind.The devil of a husband lives with his mistress and was able to get out of that hell hole,which within a year is no longer a Communist state! I hope the Turkish people left in Bulgaria are thriving today.Politics are the devil !
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If she’s deemed mentally competent during the crime she should have gotten life or the death penalty. I’ll never understand how adults could abuse a child or even kill one. It’s a very sad world when the innocent become prey.
So sad all around, her actions, the treatment of the Turkish people, the way her husband treated her. I wish people would wake up to the fact that we are all equally human and we all deserve love, respect and equality.
Ty BC for show casing a relatively recent case. It's often nice to learn of current times in history. More people can identify with crimes of our time! Love the old stuff too but tx for recent news! Great job as always!!!
@@BriefCaseOfficial You're very welcome! Thanks for new video, did relisten 3 times already; ads plays well! Sorry I wrote your email to Fran Reid, thought you had a Patreon... Have good day!
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Yeah she had it bad....but to be so cruel to let your 10 month old lay there to breathe in the smoke then stab the 4 yr old bc he's trying to escape but she changes her mind about dying in the flames!? I wonder why because it freaking burns!! She could have killed that husband and brother of hers and left with her children! Damn the kids didn't treat you badly your hubby and brother did. Poor Lil boys I can't imagine how the 4 yr old felt knowing his mother was the one ending his life.
Hello Helen, Good points, this was a very sad case to research and narrate but I wanted to do it especially as it highlighted issues that happened in the country in the 1980’s.
At that time Bulgaria was a terrible place to be living. I condemn her actions but there but for the grace of God goes many of us. Fly high little ones and may the world learn from the mistakes (to put it very gently) of others.
Elina made a BAD decision. Her feeble attempt at suicide waned naturally when those HOT firey flames loomed in on her. However, her bold resolve in killing her sons sealed her fate.
honestly .. i love your videos very informative and interesting about different crimes and punishments . I am also intrigued at how you research all your brief case stories.
Hi again. Geez I always learn something new when I listen to you, Mr. Case. Thank you for the bit of history of Bulgaria, Turkey, and Their short 80's suppression. You sounded to me like you sympathized with this baby killer for not getting her sentence commuted. Maybe I'm wrong. All I know is,, her death was quicker, less painful, and done by some stranger, not someone in her family. Lucky her. Again, thanks Mr. Case. ❤️👍
Great work BC I can’t believe she would kill her children and then think... “actually I don’t want to die anymore” that’s vile! I thought when the Video started she was going to Kill her husband or something 🙉
I think when there is a fire too near you, it's almost a biological imperative that you get away. Kind of like how you can only hold your breath so long before your body forces you to breathe. So even though she intended to kill herself, that primal desire to live forced her to flee. Too bad she didn't give her children that same choice. 🙁
I've either finally found ONE video I missed or my memory is so crap I've forgotten. Either way, I dont care. I'm rapt. I love Brief Case. Fave channel by far. Thank you!!
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I of course feel bad for the children. But she snapped. Her husband and brother should have been held accountable as well for driving her to insanity. She could have been kept alive to serve the community, and helping other prisoners. What a waste...so sad. And what was done to the Bulgarian Turks was inhumane. Racism and Nationalism is evil.
Indeed was terrible crime! concern killing children, animals or any human being, it's just horrible sin. Thank you, your bell woke me up, and i'm glad; love yours stories and voice! See you soon.
I was a victim of a husband hitting me even in frunt of my 3 children I left only once my kids where working and could take cair of themselves I started my life anew when I was 46 after 27 years of marriage so I can understand her despair I even took an overdose but I would never have hurt my darling children I have a good life now I live alone,
A bit off-topic, but that whole renaming thing was pretty twisted. Making 300,000+ people change their names is just unimaginable. And the fact that it happened in my lifetime also surprised me. It seems like something some 17th century tyrannical regime might have done.
@@boyo-shook3891 I might be wrong but even if a force change of name is wrong, it's not genocide. ... Now I have to go research the definition. Grrr. Thanks
Good video! It's rare to see anyone covering cases from my country. If you'd be interested, make one about the Belneyski sisters. If you want, I could help you out!
Hello, I do not know this case so any information would be good, Thanks for your comment, this video has my lowest number of views but I have always considered it a very sad yet interesting case
@@BriefCaseOfficial The Belneyski case is a very interesting one. Two sisters go missing one night after a disco an they are last seen going to the bus to get home and a week later their bodies are foun thrown in the wilderness by a rural roa, raped and brutally murdered... for years no info on who didd it and they finally came up with a suspect who is most likely thrown in the handds of the police by someone else... lots of cover up, intrigue andd the deaths of some investigators and witnesses. If it interests you this kind of story I could help you with the story for a video
We don't hear anything in North America from that part of the world. Thank you for the background information relating to this case. Didn't know about these political events back in the late 80s.
Elina's husband was a bloody swine . He drove her to losing her mind and killing her children . His heartlessness can be seen by the manner in which he replaced Elina with his keep . I hope he never has peace or success or happiness in this lifetime .
I find it ironic that people feel sorry for her, and other women abused; yet, men that are abused emotionally/verbally for years and years are called "weak" and to "grow a pair" when they finally snap. Take that Christopher Watts case. VERY FEW people acknowledge the abuse he suffered from his wife. It is universally accepted that it is NEVER short of horrific if children are killed, regardless which parent kills them. I feel sorry for ANY person that is silently being abused by their partner. My sympathy IMMEDIATELY ends the minute they hurt their babies!!! :-(
One thing I like about many of these videos is the informative historical background. While I was naturally aware of the general goings-on in the Communist bloc at the time, I didn’t know for instance about the plight of Turks in Bulgaria, or the “Great Excursion,” acts of oppression for which Todor Zhivkov was the Bulgarian leader responsible. I do however recall with satisfaction the machine-gunning of the murderous Ceausescus, ex-dictators of neighboring Romania. Perhaps Zhivkov’s sins were not as great--against his own ethnic Bulgarians at least--which is why he and other leaders escaped such an ignominious fate. Elina Zlatanova’s crime was brutal, but people raised in poverty under brutal governments are more prone to respond with brutality themselves, however irrational. Hers was essentially an act of despair, of nihilism. She saw her world as hopeless, so her response was to destroy as much of it as she could. Eastern Europe and Russia are still not such great places to live compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, and still inclined to authoritarianism, but thank God they’re better now that Communist scum has been driven out of power. Anyway thanks for yet another interesting video.
That was horrific. I don't understand how she could kill her children, especially a four year old who would have been totally aware. I hope she repented before her execution. Thank you for another detailed, disturbing true story.
That's sad. Awful life. Horrible husband!! She killed her children to get back at her husband and burn there home and destroy all memory of there life together. Very sad! especially when children are involved
You say "for some reason" twice; at ~5:35 she escaped cause burning alive is excruciating, at ~8:10 she wasn't commuted cause her crimes deserved death. Pretty obvious reasons. Love the channel, great content 👍
Truly sad, not even a photo to refer her to.. Bulgaria in the 1980s must have been truly depressing, with next to no options for a 30-something Turkish woman with two kids and a slob for a husband - the country only really opened up in the last decade, after years of Communist rule, and were accepted into the EU.. going by the football match I saw a few days ago the mentality of quite a few of their countrymen is still in the Stone Age. So in short, Elina was obviously in a desperate place mentally and this manifested horribly.
darganx this is one of the saddest so far. I truly believe she was driven mad by being worked to death, no freedom - husband won’t take her out but she’s forbidden to go out alone so a virtual prisoner living a slave like existence. Two very young children to care for and for all we know suffering from post natal depression perhaps due to her intolerable circumstances. Perhaps she also knew her pig of a husband was having an affair and all this combined to break her. Heartbreaking to think her toddler died in agony conscious of his own mother killing him. Was really hard to hear this one. Horrible to know her husband had a absolutely no blame pointed at him and goes on to live and enjoy life.
How can you kill your own kids? Temporary insanity? Some part of her brain was malfunctioning and lack of emotional support from her husband sent her over the edge. The husband had a mistress so she was ignored. Despair must have set in. So sad for her babies. 🥲
No one gets to decide who live and who doesn't. Children would have been better human being because of their father. They should have got the chance. It was an act of chronic depression. She lost hope for her children.
Her husband must be punished to be the cause of this incidence. He emotionally manipulated her to do such thing with her kids n herself. He is the real culprit and was living happily. Shameless, ruthless creature he was.
All people with Muslim names, we're forced to accept Christian names. The other nonsense there was tax called Single tax. Means that if u r not married and have no children u pay tax for that.😂
@@diarradunlap9337 I totally agree Diarra. Not that she gets a pass on letting her baby die in the crib, but to stab your 4 year old after leaving your baby to die from smoke inhalation, that to me is intent. She deserved the punishment. She probably set the fire to the apartment and committed murder to get back at her husband. Maybe she was on to him cheating on her? She admitted what she did. Revenge perhaps? The poor kids...RIP
I wish she would have at least gone after the awful cheating husband if she felt her life was a living hell. I understand that she probably intended it to be an extended suicide, but I hate when people redirect their anger at innocent people.
My husband is Slavic ( Croatian), Tomislav, tata is Zlatko, mom Mira, brother vijenslav , Teta Zdenka [spelling might be off because hes not here to spell check].
Her husband said she couldn't leave the apartment so she should have stayed. I think she wanted to but fire pain can change your mind pretty quickly. I think she was better off executed. Her husband probably would have ended up bearing her anyway. Bulgaria was mess. I had no idea. I didn't have the internet back then. 😊
I have never heard of this story, but the name thing was real and touched almost every household right till the very end. It is crazy my real name is also an aftermath of this name policy in the country. Just born shortly before the end of communist BG state my parents had to choose in a list of very slavic names. What I never understood is how this woman didn’t make use of her rights by this time. Kardjali was not the final decision maker. Sofia usually was and still by this day is. Divorce was an option more even back in those times, in wich the state took care.
Gosh this is so awful and tragic . I can't help but feel the husband should have been prosecuted also for the mental abuse. If he hadn't have done that she wouldn't have been so mental damaged
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This was not a "loveless marriage" it was an abusive relationship where the woman was treated like a slave and isolated from her family. It is horrific that her suicide attempt was so destructive and the fact that she murdered her innocent children is so tragic.
I discovered this channel fairly recently, and though it's nearly 2 years old, I want to comment on this video. I knew a Turkish family who immigrated to my area just prior to the time of these events. They lived much as they had in Bulgaria. I saw the wife being mistreated by her young sons with encouragement from the boorish, demanding father. The wife explained traditional family life to me. The way Elina, the woman in the story, was treated was not unusual.
Thanks for the comment :)
Holy shit! That really escalated quickly. Very interesting story, again. Also, just thought I should mention, I LOVE that sound effect when you make a transition in the story 👏
What YOU HEARD made it sound like it escalated quickly. Have some common sense.
I didn’t realize the husband was not in the apartment. Shame.
Yep just went off to live in Turkey :(
leslie smith, damn right. If anyone deserved to be murdered, it was the husband, not the children!
@@alicewilloughby4318….and why did he deserve to be murdered?
The unfortunate Medea model of going about things. So sad.
I remember when the Wall came down...my best friend was in Germany at the time & she brought me a chunk. :) Great work, again! 👍 I'd never heard of this case.
Gosh, this bring back some memories. I was a kid when Soviet Union dissolved. Crazy times. The Soviets had a similar policy after the WWII in regards to females not being executed. Only three women were put to death during that era. A Nazi war criminal nicknamed "Tonia the Machine Gunner", a school cafeteria cook from what is now Ukraine who poisoned scores of schoolchildren and her own brother in law (because he watched too much football). I can't remember her name. The third case was a political one. In the 80s a lady in charge of supplying several state owned cafes and restaurants named Bella Brodsky was charged with embezzlement. She obviously threatened to name names of those even higher, so she was promptly executed.
Hello, Interesting info, I am sure there are some great cases from Eastern Europe back then but it is a bit challenging sourcing all the info.
You really should send Brief Case the story about the school cafeteria cook! That sounds really interesting.
I want to know more of this story
I feel sorry for her situation, but what she did was unforgivable
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If she would've saved the kids I would said let her go, but those babies lives were snuffed out before they even started.
@Journeystomake Alkebulan ~ pffft! Humans created ALL gods
This one I have little to no recall about. And I know I should but I don’t it’s very interesting and was a very interesting time in history to say the lest. Keep them coming and I will keep listening as always never disappointed in what you bring to us to listen to. Again another glimpse into our past from our inspector Brief Case.
Hi Bill, You will know the next 2, Scotland today & Canada next week. Its strange as I thought most people would have heard of next weeks case but when I asked my focus group none of the 20 had heard of it, strange as I think it is one of Canada's most famous cases.
She was clearly not in her right mind.The devil of a husband lives with his mistress and was able to get out of that hell hole,which within a year is no longer a Communist state!
I hope the Turkish people left in Bulgaria are thriving today.Politics are the devil !
A new Brief Case vid? Hell yes! I'm saving this to watch later on tonight. 😊
Thank you B C for a very informative upload.
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Wow 😲 Brief Case, i like how you mix it up a little between historical and vintage stories. I think 🤔 Brief Case could tell ANY story and it would be the most detailed story you could ever 👂 listen to! ♥️💋👍😱thank you Brief Case, you are blessed with a brilliant voice and the 🇬🇧 British accent is an absolute pleasure to hear I find myself gripping on your every word! I’m hooked and watching ALL your vids with two or three stories 📚 a day 😍😱😫😳💋♥️ I really appreciate your research and quirky facts included.
If she’s deemed mentally competent during the crime she should have gotten life or the death penalty. I’ll never understand how adults could abuse a child or even kill one. It’s a very sad world when the innocent become prey.
So sad all around, her actions, the treatment of the Turkish people, the way her husband treated her. I wish people would wake up to the fact that we are all equally human and we all deserve love, respect and equality.
So did her 2 little boys !!!!!!
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I don't blame them either - i just have no sympathy...
Some cultures are better than others...
Very well put!!!🙏😪
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Ty BC for show casing a relatively recent case. It's often nice to learn of current times in history. More people can identify with crimes of our time! Love the old stuff too but tx for recent news! Great job as always!!!
Thanks :)
Just what I needed!!! Thanks Brief Case
Congrats Mr Brief! 90.3K! Great to hear your narration again.Very sad indeed.Thank you.
Thanks :)
@@BriefCaseOfficial You're very welcome! Thanks for new video, did relisten 3 times already; ads plays well! Sorry I wrote your email to Fran Reid, thought you had a Patreon... Have good day!
Man that was haunting. Thank you for sharing. Love your videos BC. 💚🖤💚🖤
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I think I am following you.....🤔
Wait that would be lurking/stalking, lol! Oh, but it is Okay....I'm a week behind. Cheers 👀you at Mortis live chat, I think it's today or Sunday. Hope to stay awake. 💧Bye Ariel 🧜♀️...🌊🌊🌊 red looks really nice.
Awesome job on this video & it's content. Keep up the amazing work.
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Great work on this tragic case!
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Yeah she had it bad....but to be so cruel to let your 10 month old lay there to breathe in the smoke then stab the 4 yr old bc he's trying to escape but she changes her mind about dying in the flames!? I wonder why because it freaking burns!!
She could have killed that husband and brother of hers and left with her children! Damn the kids didn't treat you badly your hubby and brother did. Poor Lil boys I can't imagine how the 4 yr old felt knowing his mother was the one ending his life.
Hello Helen, Good points, this was a very sad case to research and narrate but I wanted to do it especially as it highlighted issues that happened in the country in the 1980’s.
At that time Bulgaria was a terrible place to be living. I condemn her actions but there but for the grace of God goes many of us. Fly high little ones and may the world learn from the mistakes (to put it very gently) of others.
Very very sad and heart wretching makes me feel very sad and disturbed. Good work brief case lové all your videos👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great video BC! Tragic story.
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Elina made a BAD decision. Her feeble attempt at suicide waned naturally when those HOT firey flames loomed in on her. However, her bold resolve in killing her sons sealed her fate.
honestly .. i love your videos very informative and interesting about different crimes and punishments . I am also intrigued at how you research all your brief case stories.
Thankyou :)
Hi again. Geez I always learn something new when I listen to you,
Mr. Case. Thank you for the bit of history of Bulgaria, Turkey, and
Their short 80's suppression. You sounded to me like you sympathized with this baby killer for not getting her sentence commuted. Maybe I'm
wrong. All I know is,, her death was quicker, less painful, and done by some stranger, not someone in her family. Lucky her. Again, thanks Mr. Case.
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Another fantastic upload, 💼!!! Love the channel and am a huge fan. 😎👍 🔥💀🔥
Thanks for the great video.
You sort of remind me of the channel Nightmare Files. The way your titles are set up and channel overall. He’s just a lot more dark. Good job dude.
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What a sad story what had her kids done she should not have done what she did another great video thanks b c .
Love love love this program. Keep'em coming please.
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Brilliant as always, BC ❤️
This channel is very well done. Thanks
I look forward to you vids a TON!
Keep it up my dude! awesome content
Awesome case☺ i just don't understand why she would murder her own children 😢
Great work BC I can’t believe she would kill her children and then think... “actually I don’t want to die anymore” that’s vile! I thought when the Video started she was going to Kill her husband or something 🙉
I think when there is a fire too near you, it's almost a biological imperative that you get away. Kind of like how you can only hold your breath so long before your body forces you to breathe. So even though she intended to kill herself, that primal desire to live forced her to flee. Too bad she didn't give her children that same choice. 🙁
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Another great one B,C
I've either finally found ONE video I missed or my memory is so crap I've forgotten. Either way, I dont care. I'm rapt. I love Brief Case. Fave channel by far. Thank you!!
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I of course feel bad for the children. But she snapped. Her husband and brother should have been held accountable as well for driving her to insanity. She could have been kept alive to serve the community, and helping other prisoners. What a waste...so sad.
And what was done to the Bulgarian Turks was inhumane. Racism and Nationalism is evil.
Indeed was terrible crime! concern killing children, animals or any human being, it's just horrible sin. Thank you, your bell woke me up, and i'm glad; love yours stories and voice! See you soon.
Hello, Thankyou for the lovely comment :)
Brief Case It's all my pleasure! your channel will grow quicker than you expect, your contents are very interesting! i love it. More👍up for you.
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I was a victim of a husband hitting me even in frunt of my 3 children I left only once my kids where working and could take cair of themselves I started my life anew when I was 46 after 27 years of marriage so I can understand her despair I even took an overdose but I would never have hurt my darling children I have a good life now I live alone,
A bit off-topic, but that whole renaming thing was pretty twisted. Making 300,000+ people change their names is just unimaginable. And the fact that it happened in my lifetime also surprised me. It seems like something some 17th century tyrannical regime might have done.
I'm pretty sure that that is categorized as an act of genocide.
@@boyo-shook3891 I might be wrong but even if a force change of name is wrong, it's not genocide. ... Now I have to go research the definition. Grrr. Thanks
Very interesting video!
Thankyou :)
How could she?? This is one of the most horrible things I've ever heard!
I often wondered about how a woman who can give life turns and take it away, this story was truly sad.
Yes so many people think all mothers could never harm their children but we know it's not true. So sad, every way you look at it.
Betrayal and abuse can change someone. I speak from experience, but I did not carry out my thoughts. Instead, I waited for KARMA.
What a horrible woman! This is tragic!
Interesting. Crazy though
Good video! It's rare to see anyone covering cases from my country. If you'd be interested, make one about the Belneyski sisters. If you want, I could help you out!
Hello, I do not know this case so any information would be good, Thanks for your comment, this video has my lowest number of views but I have always considered it a very sad yet interesting case
@@BriefCaseOfficial The Belneyski case is a very interesting one. Two sisters go missing one night after a disco an they are last seen going to the bus to get home and a week later their bodies are foun thrown in the wilderness by a rural roa, raped and brutally murdered... for years no info on who didd it and they finally came up with a suspect who is most likely thrown in the handds of the police by someone else... lots of cover up, intrigue andd the deaths of some investigators and witnesses. If it interests you this kind of story I could help you with the story for a video
O....M...G... I know you can't do anything about the ending because it's a real case but THAT CONCLUSION 😱!!!! Truth is stranger than fiction; 5x🌟
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We don't hear anything in North America from that part of the world. Thank you for the background information relating to this case. Didn't know about these political events back in the late 80s.
Elina's husband was a bloody swine . He drove her to losing her mind and killing her children . His heartlessness can be seen by the manner in which he replaced Elina with his keep . I hope he never has peace or success or happiness in this lifetime .
Crazy situation,😢life,😕
Such an interesting story, however sad...
I find it ironic that people feel sorry for her, and other women abused; yet, men that are abused emotionally/verbally for years and years are called "weak" and to "grow a pair" when they finally snap. Take that Christopher Watts case. VERY FEW people acknowledge the abuse he suffered from his wife.
It is universally accepted that it is NEVER short of horrific if children are killed, regardless which parent kills them.
I feel sorry for ANY person that is silently being abused by their partner. My sympathy IMMEDIATELY ends the minute they hurt their babies!!! :-(
One thing I like about many of these videos is the informative historical background. While I was naturally aware of the general goings-on in the Communist bloc at the time, I didn’t know for instance about the plight of Turks in Bulgaria, or the “Great Excursion,” acts of oppression for which Todor Zhivkov was the Bulgarian leader responsible. I do however recall with satisfaction the machine-gunning of the murderous Ceausescus, ex-dictators of neighboring Romania. Perhaps Zhivkov’s sins were not as great--against his own ethnic Bulgarians at least--which is why he and other leaders escaped such an ignominious fate.
Elina Zlatanova’s crime was brutal, but people raised in poverty under brutal governments are more prone to respond with brutality themselves, however irrational. Hers was essentially an act of despair, of nihilism. She saw her world as hopeless, so her response was to destroy as much of it as she could.
Eastern Europe and Russia are still not such great places to live compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, and still inclined to authoritarianism, but thank God they’re better now that Communist scum has been driven out of power. Anyway thanks for yet another interesting video.
That was horrific. I don't understand how she could kill her children, especially a four year old who would have been totally aware. I hope she repented before her execution. Thank you for another detailed, disturbing true story.
It sounds like she had a break from reailty. The whole situation sounds absolutely horrible. (I am not excusing her actions at all)
Sucky situation but you’re children should give you life in a situation like that... to kill them, worse than her husband in the end.
Very sad story 😭
She had a job, so why did she stay with her husband??!
That's sad. Awful life. Horrible husband!! She killed her children to get back at her husband and burn there home and destroy all memory of there life together. Very sad! especially when children are involved
Everyone has a breaking point...
So sad...
You say "for some reason" twice; at ~5:35 she escaped cause burning alive is excruciating, at ~8:10 she wasn't commuted cause her crimes deserved death. Pretty obvious reasons.
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This is more common than people think. Mothers who kill their children. It is a global thing, not culturally driven. RIP babies
Truly sad, not even a photo to refer her to..
Bulgaria in the 1980s must have been truly depressing, with next to no options for a 30-something Turkish woman with two kids and a slob for a husband - the country only really opened up in the last decade, after years of Communist rule, and were accepted into the EU.. going by the football match I saw a few days ago the mentality of quite a few of their countrymen is still in the Stone Age.
So in short, Elina was obviously in a desperate place mentally and this manifested horribly.
darganx this is one of the saddest so far. I truly believe she was driven mad by being worked to death, no freedom - husband won’t take her out but she’s forbidden to go out alone so a virtual prisoner living a slave like existence. Two very young children to care for and for all we know suffering from post natal depression perhaps due to her intolerable circumstances. Perhaps she also knew her pig of a husband was having an affair and all this combined to break her. Heartbreaking to think her toddler died in agony conscious of his own mother killing him. Was really hard to hear this one. Horrible to know her husband had a absolutely no blame pointed at him and goes on to live and enjoy life.
How can you kill your own kids? Temporary insanity? Some part of her brain was malfunctioning and lack of emotional support from her husband sent her over the edge. The husband had a mistress so she was ignored. Despair must have set in. So sad for her babies.
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I don’t feel at all bad for her. Plenty of crazy people protect their children.
Changing 310,000 names to get added control? How ridiculous!
No one gets to decide who live and who doesn't. Children would have been better human being because of their father. They should have got the chance. It was an act of chronic depression. She lost hope for her children.
Sad.
Not to disrespect the seriousness of this case, but I'm not sure that life in a Bulgarian prison is much better than death...
What she went through was terrible but to take out on those innocent kids instead of her husband???!!! I can't wrap my head around it 🥺🥺
Called the Medea syndrome.
Her husband must be punished to be the cause of this incidence. He emotionally manipulated her to do such thing with her kids n herself. He is the real culprit and was living happily. Shameless, ruthless creature he was.
Sad story. But i hope d husband learn a valuable lesson with his treatment of his new wife.
That name change law in Bulgaria is news to me! Wow.
All people with Muslim names, we're forced to accept Christian names.
The other nonsense there was tax called Single tax. Means that if u r not married and have no children u pay tax for that.😂
The husband MOVED BACK TO THE APARTMENT WITH HIS MISTRESS??!! damn..
Heartbreaking to think I'd that little boy trying to escape and her stopping and stabbing him 😔
Yes. At that point, she EARNED her execution.
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I totally agree Diarra. Not that she gets a pass on letting her baby die in the crib, but to stab your 4 year old after leaving your baby to die from smoke inhalation, that to me is intent.
She deserved the punishment.
She probably set the fire to the apartment and committed murder to get back at her husband.
Maybe she was on to him cheating on her?
She admitted what she did.
Revenge perhaps?
The poor kids...RIP
She had learned helplessness!! Very sad case
So heartbreaking. That guy was a scumbag who should never find peace.
I wish she would have at least gone after the awful cheating husband if she felt her life was a living hell. I understand that she probably intended it to be an extended suicide, but I hate when people redirect their anger at innocent people.
Have you read about the cases of Elizabeth Brownrigg and Lavinia Fisher?
My husband is Slavic ( Croatian), Tomislav, tata is Zlatko, mom Mira, brother vijenslav , Teta Zdenka [spelling might be off because hes not here to spell check].
I was in Eastern Europe in the late 80's lol
This one I had little to no reca
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Her husband said she couldn't leave the apartment so she should have stayed. I think she wanted to but fire pain can change your mind pretty quickly. I think she was better off executed. Her husband probably would have ended up bearing her anyway. Bulgaria was mess. I had no idea. I didn't have the internet back then. 😊
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I have never heard of this story, but the name thing was real and touched almost every household right till the very end. It is crazy my real name is also an aftermath of this name policy in the country. Just born shortly before the end of communist BG state my parents had to choose in a list of very slavic names. What I never understood is how this woman didn’t make use of her rights by this time. Kardjali was not the final decision maker. Sofia usually was and still by this day is. Divorce was an option more even back in those times, in wich the state took care.
Gosh this is so awful and tragic . I can't help but feel the husband should have been prosecuted also for the mental abuse. If he hadn't have done that she wouldn't have been so mental damaged
Wait... "officially, we don't execute people. Also, she's the last person we ever executed"??