Alexander Solanik, aka Alexander the Great, aka Sasha, the Macedonian, aka the super killer was

a legendary and mysterious Russian hitman in the 1980s and 90s who carried out contract killings

primarily for the Oracle the Skaya Russian Mafia group. His targets were generally the leaders

of other criminal organizations, the hardest men to kill. Men other contract killers had tried

and failed to kill. Solanik is believed to have fulfilled at least 43 murder contracts,

including the assassinations of roughly 30 high-level mob bosses in addition to killing

numerous other people. He also escaped from prisons and from courtrooms multiple times and

apparently even fought 12 dudes at once in prison and won during one of his brief periods behind bars.

This dude was deadly with his hands a black belt and multiple martial arts, deadlier with a gun

trained by the Russian military to be an expert marksman. He was feared by other gangsters and

even the newspapers were in awe of Solanik's abilities. A reporter once wrote, Solanik could be called

one of the best known and most ruthless contract killers. His nearly supernatural ability to disappear

and emerge again might easily be compared to that of international terrorist Carlos the jackal.

We've done a lot of Russian theme time sucks since this ride began and this is a great addition

to a catalog that now includes sucks on the KGB, Andre Cicatilo, Baba Yaga, Joseph Stalin,

Mikhail Popkov, the Russian sleep experiment, Alexander Przushkin, the Dyetlov pass incident and

Rasputin. And this is the second hit man we've sucked after Richard the Iceman Kuklingsky.

It's a very entertaining tale so get ready to learn more about Russia and a lot about a man

who was very hard to research. The life of Alexander Solanik shrouded in so much mystery

on another true crime Russian edition of Time Suck.

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