Volodya Grinko

Volodya Grinko is a former Spetsnaz operative and a member of the St. Petersburg Seven. He is considered the right-hand man of Nikolai Kalinin, and could also possibly be seen as Kalinin's enforcer.
==Personality==
Volodya is considered a loyal and selfless man who cared just as much about his comrades as Nikolai Kalinin himself did. There were instances where he was willing to get himself killed in order to protect his comrades. He saw his life as forefeit as far as his friends were concerned. He began to see his life as one huge record of service to his country.
===Religious views===
Volodya, despite not being religious or spiritual himself, developed a rather extreme "obsession" with spirituality at a young age. This craving began in his childhood, after Volodya started reading ancient manuscripts concerning Biblical stories, as well as ancient so-called "holy books" from other religions.
When Volodya joined the military, and served alongside the Spetsnaz, he spent as much time as he could interviewing the local Syrians, as well as the Chechens, about their religious ideology.
His biggest obsession was Christianity, mostly because of its unique teachings, particularly that Jesus truly is the Savior of the human race. The one thing he felt like he could never understand was the concept of human sin. He struggled to comprehend just how bad sin was in the eyes of such a holy God and struggled to comprehend the justice of God, finding it troubling to believe that eternal separation from God is the only just punishment for sin, even if one's sins were temporary. 
Like Kalinin himself, Volodya also was skeptic of the salvation system of Christianity, although it fascinated him at the same time. He found it troubling that humans were so corrupt by nature that they needed someone to take the punishment for their moral crimes on their behalf (since according to the Bible, salvation by human effort is impossible), but also believed that a loving God that would offer salvation freely to those who wanted it was also a God that condoned and actively practiced bribery (this formed his main source of disagreement with the Christian faith). 
However, he eventually came to terms with the fact that there truly was no other way around the problem of humanity's moral corruption, but still found himself struggling to comprehend what could compel such a holy God to send His own Son to die for humanity. 
As of 2017, he is still on a spiritual search for answers.
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