Her affair with a local political leader's brother-in-law led to her being volunteered into military service and assigned to Gulag #23. After losing her dignity and self respect, she had to cut her hair because of lice infestation within the gulag.
At the time we meet her in the comic she is completely detestable. She has no qualms brutalizing the prisoners or killing them outright. In the end, the prisoners extract their revenge.