Alexi Shostakov

"This will be my legacy-- a new, united empire, rising from the ashes of these islands... and the ashes of you who are foolish enough to oppose me. The choice is now yours... die swiftly fighting or slowly in flames?"
Character Stat Sheet
==Public Information==
The Red Guardian is the Soviet's answer to Captain America. He is the embodiment of the might of the Soviet Union. He has been working tirelessly to defend the Soviet people since World War II. He is a national hero.
Alexi Shostakov was a Soviet test pilot and a hero to the Soviet people. He married famed ballerina Natalia Romanova in a well-publicized wedding; but tragically died in a piloting accident a couple years later.
==Background==
==Personality==
Alexi is a brave man of fierce loyalties to his country and to what he sees as just and right. He started out as a test pilot, willing to go where none had gone before and risk his life to test new technology. Being inducted into the Super Soldier program was only the next logical step-- though it cost him everything he had: his name, his life, his wife.
He is protective of his teammates, and, like the Red Guardian before him, he does not necessarily agree with everything the motherland does. Unlike Lebedev (who records of have been erased), Shostakov is wise enough to keep his mouth shut. That doesn't mean he doesn't keep his eyes and ears open. He is highly observant and very intelligent, traits that often come in handy in a fight.
He will work on a professional level with those he personally despises, for the greater good. That doesn't mean he's forgiven... or forgotten. Perhaps the quirk of nursing his grudges has always been there, or perhaps it was something the serum awoken in him. But whatever it is, he has patience; one day he will have vengeance, and that is a dish best served as cold as the Siberian tundra in winter's depths.
==Logs==
* 1953-07-12 - A New Comrade - Unknowingly betrayed by the Winter Soldier, Alexi Shostakov is inducted into the Soviet Super Soldier program.
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