Ivan Konev

Ivan Konev is a Soviet General, Leader of the Kazan Military District, and one of the most powerful men in what remains of the Soviet Union.

History
Marshal Ivan Konev was born on the 28th of December, 1897 to a peasant family in Western Russia. Spending his early life in parish schools, Ivan would quickly become a lumberjack by the age of 16, possessing an unusually high mental drive. He was drafted into the Imperial Army during the First World War, only to join the Reds after being demobilized with no work prospects. A personal protege of Kliment Voroshilov, Konev would attend top military schools in the interwar period, and rose to the rank of general by the time of the Great Patriotic War. During the war, Konev showed great strategic intuition and quickly became a leader of the Red Army, despite the failure of the war.

When the Soviet Union was defeated, Konev quickly radicalized even further. He began to feel that the world had betrayed the Union to the Germans, and that all of the West, not just Germany, was their enemy. This only continued when the USSR began to fracture, and Konev was disgracefully sent to deal with the Tatars and VSOU around Kazan on Beria's order, an attempt to soft exile the powerful general. Now he spends his days fighting a German sponsored insurgency, and watching Beria sully the good name of Socialism in Perm. However one day soon, the time mau come to deliver justice to not just Beria, but the entire World.