Rudolf Shvertman

General Rudolf Fyodorovich Shvertman is a character and main antagonist of Danger Close: Red Tide.
Shvertman is the Commander of the Eastern Bloc Forces in Europe and is also an active member in the Soviet government as a member of the State Committee for Labour and Social Problems.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Rudolf Shvertman was born in Leningrad to a family of Baltic German origin, his father being a former professor of Russian literature at the University of Leningrad, and his mother an upcoming figure in Soviet figure skating. Shvertman enlisted in the Soviet Armed Forces in 1946 and was deployed in East Germany all throughout his career, rising through the ranks until 1979, when he was placed in charge of an invasion in Western territory.
=== Missions ===
Shvertman's name is not mentioned until "Das Rheingold", where he is said to be the main figure behind the Soviet invasion and the architect of Europe's downfalll, controlling nearly every aspect of life the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
After the NATO Pyrrhic victory in Europe, Shvertman flees to the Sinai peninsula under a fake identity to gather support from local forces to launch another campaign against the West, this time through North Africa. Shvertman's compound is swarmed by NATO troops, but intervention from the Egyptian military results in Shvertman escaping unharmed, and strained relations between the West and Egypt.
From 1982 to 1983, Shvertman and the USSR's top military advisors planned a full-scale invasion on US soil from Cuba and Central America, and on May 11, 1983, Soviet forces landed on the coast of the Florida Keys and began their advance towards Washington, D.C.
== Personal Life ==