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Admitting the “burden” that comes with her “unusual surname,” Leonie explained that “the Mad Baron” is far from her only prominent relative.
“If a family is almost 1,000 years old, there is a chance that one or the other is going to … have done negative things throughout history,” Leonie told The Post.
“We were always raised in a very humble way … I’ve been working since I was 18,” she said.
“It’s not like I have this super-glamorous life and I’m a baroness … No, it’s just a name that in that context doesn’t mean anything,” she said.
Leonie admits she “didn’t know much” about Ungern growing up, but after posting TikToks and vlogs for her friends, her link to one of the early 20th century’s bloodiest conquests went viral.
The Mad Baron is credited by some historians of helping to liberate Mongolia from Chinese occupation, but his madness and brutality were also legend.
He became obsessed with Eastern religions, and his forces were less an army than a heavily armed cult.
In addition to hating communists, he was also virulently antisemitic and he devised sadistic tortures and painful deaths for his enemies — and even his own followers who disobeyed him.
He was said to have burned victims alive, left them out in the cold to be torn apart by wolves, crucified them by rusty nails and forcing them to stay in treetops until they fell out and were shot, or died of exposure.
“If a family is almost 1,000 years old, there is a chance that one or the other is going to … have done negative things throughout history,” Leonie told The Post.
“We were always raised in a very humble way … I’ve been working since I was 18,” she said.
“It’s not like I have this super-glamorous life and I’m a baroness … No, it’s just a name that in that context doesn’t mean anything,” she said.
Leonie admits she “didn’t know much” about Ungern growing up, but after posting TikToks and vlogs for her friends, her link to one of the early 20th century’s bloodiest conquests went viral.
The Mad Baron is credited by some historians of helping to liberate Mongolia from Chinese occupation, but his madness and brutality were also legend.
He became obsessed with Eastern religions, and his forces were less an army than a heavily armed cult.
In addition to hating communists, he was also virulently antisemitic and he devised sadistic tortures and painful deaths for his enemies — and even his own followers who disobeyed him.
He was said to have burned victims alive, left them out in the cold to be torn apart by wolves, crucified them by rusty nails and forcing them to stay in treetops until they fell out and were shot, or died of exposure.
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