Over four years in the early 2000s, Mirgorod carried out one of the more prolific strings of killings in recent Russian criminal history, strangling 33 people before going undetected for another six years. His eventual arrest came not through witness testimony or investigative breakthrough, but through the cold persistence of forensic evidence — a fingerprint match made a decade after his crimes began.

Teleki occupies an uneasy place in twentieth-century history — a geographer and statesman who navigated Hungary's precarious position between national ambition and the gravitational pull of Nazi Germany, ultimately taking his own life when that balance collapsed. His tenure as prime minister produced significant anti-Jewish legislation, reflecting a willingness to codify discrimination as an instrument of policy even while he maneuvered to limit Hungary's military entanglement. The tension between his resistance to full subordination to Germany and his role in institutionalizing antisemitism defines the complexity that earns him a place here.