Russia’s ‘Black Widows’ Duping Soldiers Into Marriage

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Russian soldier Sergey Khandozhko got married the day after enlisting in October 2023 More puzzling was the 20-minute wedding ceremony without photos or exchange of rings, and only one guest. Afterward, Khandozhko’s new wife even carried on living with her ex-husband and their children. After Khandozhko died of injuries inflicted on the battlefield in Ukraine and his bride received the lump sum paid to every fallen soldier’s next of kin, the soldier’s sister-in-law said in an interview. The payout, totaling $200,000, is almost 20 times the average annual salary in Russia.

A judge in a Russian civil court ruled earlier this year that Khandozhko’s bride, Elena Sokolova, had tricked him into marrying her so that she could collect his inheritance. The marriage was annulled and Sokolova had to pay a 3,000 ruble fine, equivalent to $37. [ She need not return the money ].

Social media makes it easy for potential scammers to find soldiers. On Russia’s VK platform, there are dozens of groups specifically for women seeking potential husbands serving in Ukraine—with names such as “Dates with Soldiers” and “Dates with Shoulder Marks,” a euphemism for someone in uniform.

Russian authorities say criminal gangs are involved in some of the scams—sometimes seeking to ensnare multiple soldiers at once.
One gang operating in the central Russian region of Khanty-Mansiysk sought out single men and convinced them to sign military service contracts, according to the Investigative Committee in the region. The group then arranged sham marriages for the men and convinced them to hand over control of their finances, the Investigative Committee said.

The number of soldiers taken in by the scam, which netted around 30 million rubles, or $370,000, and which was prosecuted under organized crime laws, hasn’t been made public.

In February, a Russian prosecutor in the country’s far east alleged that a married couple had duped a 46-year-old man without relatives into marrying their 63-year-old female accomplice, before convincing him to sign a military contract.
“The goal was to steal the money in an event giving rise to a payment for relatives since they understood that the man had no other heirs,” the prosecutor’s office said.

When the man died, the group opened a bank account in the name of his widow, applied for the funds owed to his next of kin and shared eight million rubles, equivalent to almost $100,000, between them, according to the prosecutor’s office. The marriage was declared invalid and the case, in which neither the soldier nor the suspects have been named, is ongoing.

In April, a Siberian court found a real-estate agent guilty of inciting hatred and enmity by urging women to marry soldiers for “self-interested reasons.” The agent, Marina Orlova, had spoken on a podcast about meeting women who were trying to purchase homes with large sums of money they had obtained by inheriting it from soldiers.
“It’s very easy. Find a guy serving on the front, and when he dies you get eight million,” Orlova said in the podcast. “It’s a business plan.”

Some of the cases reviewed by the Journal involved messy family disputes over payments from fallen soldiers.
In August last year, Angelina Varyukhina married soldier Georgy Kostyrko, 27, in a town southeast of Moscow. The couple, who met on social media, lived together for 11 days, according to court documents containing the court’s decision about the couple’s relationship, before Kostyrko returned to war.

Kostyrko filed for divorce several months later, and in February, a Russian judge annulled the marriage, allowing one month for the decision to be appealed. Two weeks later, Kostyrko was killed on the front line in Russia’s Kursk region, and a day after that, Varyukhina appealed the annulment of her marriage, Kostyrko’s mother Olga Kostyrko told Russia’s NTV television channel.

That left Varyukhina as the beneficiary of Kostyrko’s death payout, according to Andranik Grigoryan, the lawyer representing the Kostyrko family. The soldier’s mother then sued Varyukhina, alleging that she had been unfaithful to Kostyrko throughout their brief marriage and was now seeking to profit from her son’s death, according to court documents published online by Grigoryan.

During the case, Varyukhina posted clips on Instagram of the couple goofing around in an apartment and dressing up in funny outfits. “Does anyone still doubt that we are right for each other?” she wrote in an April post, a month after Kostyrko’s death. She told NTV in April that she needed the payouts to cover debts Kostyrko had saddled her family with.

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Yeah i know they prostitute women. First time I came to suspect it was when richard spencer went online and said he didnt originally have "pro russian takes" and he was into european politics and americanism. He met this russian girl one day, and he started to learn from her about russian politics.

As always, when you dont know shit about a topic, the first one who introduce you to the topic will get to influence you. It happens to me as well, basically if I get into a political topic anyone will be able to influence me. Because maybe i dont yet know the whole situation. So this bitch from russia influenced richard.

I noticed the pattern, a ton of people in the politics were getting these russian brides. What a curious "coincidence". It made me wonder if incels would think with their penis or get the alluring offer. I seen incels capitulating for much less than that. I seen incels converting to feminism because some feminist western old hag was reinterpreting their emotions, these incels were so lowIQ and lowT and deprived of woman affection that they changed their ideological positions. They were weak.

Other incels, were captured by andrew tate, which is an homosexual parasocial relationship with sprinkles of cuckoldry because they get to cheer for a fake chad serial rapist while they jack off in some room. Again, they were weak, poor fag weaklings who didnt make it.

But this time, the offer of a real bride, from a state that organizes mass prostitution, this may be very alluring for the incel mind. I wonder what they will do. Will they resist the urge?

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I mean I seen also incel men converting to religions. Im not even joking. Or incel men converting to ideologies. I seen a ton of weakness. I am one of the few who surpassed 30 years of age. Im right boasting about it because incel lifestyle is tough.

I also know jews do it as well. They literally give you a jew girl to marry, they are very into this thing. They also pay rabbis of high intellect to reproduce more. The idea they have is if you got some genes they want to capture, they will give you one of their princess jewesses.

The life of a male jew instead is a puddle of dogshit, they are pressured to become high achievers. Which is why they were writing books like "MGTOW for the torah observant man". And similar stuff. Instead jew girls are treated like whore-princesses, always ready to be used when they need to capture someone good looking like ben affleck. And if you get a kid with one of these jew bitches, the kid is not yours, the community takes it away from you.

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