Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov

Aleksander Vitalevich Rukov (died February 1991) was the last head of state of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He was responsible for instigating the Third World War by ordering the invasion of the world by the Soviet Union and allied countries.
A cruel, vindictive tyrant, he wouldn't stop until the West would fall, and the world would become truly belonging to the people - and Himself. He was by far the most dangerous and cruel of all Soviet premiers, reminiscent of Joseph Stalin himself, of whom he was a close friend and a protege. Stalin bestowed upon him the Dome Of Light failsafe project, which he desired to use as the Third World War was not turning out in his favor, getting killed by Nicolas Alceste as the device was being activated.
==Biography==
===Cold War===
Aleksander's past is shrouded in mystery. It is unknown when he was born, and all the information that wasn't clasified on him was destroyed by him personally to render himself immune to any emotional blackmail, spying or stalking by enemy governments. All that is known is that Aleksander was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and a protege of Joseph Stalin himself; as time went on, he became very a close accomplice of the dictator, perhaps even closer than the other sycopanthic Bolsheviks, perhaps because Stalin saw him as a perfect young copy of himself, eager to continue his legacy.
Few days before his untimely death from a stroke, Joseph Stalin revealed to him his plans for a failsafe in case there will be no other option to conquer the world - the Dome Of Light project. When Stalin died, Aleksander was the only person who knew about it in the whole Soviet Union, and using his authority in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, authorized it's construction in the Kamchatka Peninsula, using an active volcano as a base, just as Stalin ordered.
===Premierhood===
In 1985, Aleksander was chosen as the Soviet premier. Because of his great charisma and promises, he managed to sway all the Communist countries to band together for just this one invasion, from Albania to even China, a feat which no Soviet premier was able to commit to before, due to disagreements amongst the Communists and previous antagonisms, such as the Sino-Soviet split, the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia or the Sino-Vietnamese war.
===Third World War===
thumb|250px|Aleksander adressing the Soviet population during the invasion of Moscow during the twilight of the Third World WarWhen the Third World War begun, Aleksander's malice was shown; in the first days of the war he handicapped the USA by destroying their ICBM facilities. He also ordered the bombing of Vatican City to crush the morale and spirit of Christians across the globe; all attempts at the bombingh have failed, and the bombing plan ended in a shouting match between Aleksander and Aleksandr Yefimov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force, who berated the Premier for wasting lives of several Soviet aces for an attempt at a psychological terror attack, instead of using their skills to bomb strategic targets in NATO countries.
As NATO was starting to fight back, Aleksander also revealed himself to be a selfish ally to his brothers-in-arms, as he denied help to both Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung, when the first asked for military support and the second asked to be injected with mutant serum to potentially regain his failing health. Both of the dictators have passed away, both assassinated by the US Army.
Aleksander was displeased when the first Soviet trump card - the mutants - failed to ensure total Soviet victory, especially when Martin MacDonald destroyed the main lab developing them. That only meant one thing - the Dome Of Light must be activated and cauterize the Earth. NATO was closing in on Moscow, and Aleksander evacuated himself into the secret Kamchatka bunker, leaving Dmitry Yazov and Konstantin Werner Dorosji. In Kamchatka, Aleksander prepared himself to activate the secret trump card when Nicolas Alceste arrived in his bunker. The two fought twice, finally, Alceste damaged the Dome Of Light so much, the machine went haywire, ready to explode in mere seconds.
Aleksander yelled at the French agent, leaving him with the cryptic words - "wish we'd purged this world... i've seen the future! there's nothing there! only darkness!", before a massive explosion engulfed the control panel of the Dome Of Light, and Aleksander was no more.
==Strategy==
thumb|250px|Aleksander controlling the Dome Of Light in February 1991Fittingly, Aleksander is one of the toughest bosses. His gun fires grenades, fireballs and lasers simultaneously. This is why Atomic Immunity powerups are placed in his boss room. Ideally, one should be used to fight the Fat Boys and Mutant Commandos first, then second to fight the Terminators, and the final two to fight Aleksander.
Aleksander's Dome Of Light is the toughest boss in the entire game, a boss based on the principles of bullet hell mechanics and quick thinking, and - for some time - impervious to splash damage and anything except bullets.
It's first phase has three attacks - one is opening the left light-generation mechanism and scorching the player, second is the same but with the right mechanism, and third is releasing a explosion from the middle mechanism. All three attacks are insta-kills - they can only be avoided with memorizing the attack pattern and quick thinking. The first phase is nearly impervious to all splash damage and anything except bullet weapons and shotguns. Fast-firing bullet weapons should be used to deal with it - shoot at them at it's weak point, the rotating radar on the computer screen.
For the second phase, Milkor MGL should be used to fire grenades into the now-opened up weak spot to te left; this part is especially bullet-hell oriented, as Aleksander stops firing light bursts and starts releasing sparks that fly in a pattern and must be avoided by jumping; this is by far the easiest phase.
Then the third phase takes place, reminiscent of the first one - Milkor should be used to destroy the sattelite dish which is now the weak spot of the machine.
==Appearances==
*Mentioned or appears in photos on almost all maps, first physical appearance in Zenith.
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