Lev Sokolov

Guards Major Lev Ilyich Sokolov (/səkɐˈɫof/; Russian: Лев Ильич Соколов, IPA: [ˈlʲef ɨˈlʲjitɕ səkɐˈlof]) was a veteran Russian special operations officer, serving as commander of the 522nd Special Purpose Detachment, and often the right hand man of Guards Colonel Dmitri Kovalev. Hardened and mentally warped by horrors witnessed in his early service during the Second Chechen War, Sokolov developed twisted political and racial beliefs, for a time privately aligning himself with the ultranationalist Russian Imperial Movement. While he would ultimately abandon RIM, he would remain politically radical, eventually drawing the attention of the equally radical Kovalev when he joined the GRU Spetsnaz of the 19th Guards Special Purpose Brigade. 
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