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Ivan Usov was born in 1921, the son of a World War I veteran exposed to an experimental mutagenic gas known as X-65, allegedly developed by Imperial Germany and deployed through contaminated mustard gas munitions. Ivan’s father survived the war but lived in failing health until 1924, leaving Ivan to grow up under the severe conditions of Soviet collective farm life.

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In 1938, Ivan enlisted in the Soviet Army as an infantryman. His true nature was discovered during World War II when he was shot at close range and survived without injury. Soviet military testing revealed that Ivan possessed extraordinary strength, stamina, durability, and a dramatically slowed aging process. He could withstand small-arms fire, heavy impacts, toxins, temperature extremes, and battlefield conditions that would kill normal soldiers.

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Rather than understanding him as a man, Soviet leadership quickly understood him as a symbol.

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Given a simplified worker-soldier image and placed on the front lines, Ivan became Comrade Ivan, a living propaganda figure meant to embody Soviet strength, endurance, sacrifice, and loyalty to the Motherland. During the Battle of Stalingrad, when weapons and ammunition were scarce, Ivan gave his firearm to another soldier and charged into battle with a blacksmith’s hammer and blade. That moment became legend, fueling posters, films, speeches, and battlefield stories that turned him into one of the Soviet Union’s most recognizable wartime superhuman icons.

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Throughout the war, Ivan fought Axis troops and repeatedly clashed with the Axis Force. Though his strength and durability made him a terrifying frontline combatant, he was often outmaneuvered by superior tactics, especially those of Baron Berlin. Ivan was not a strategist by instinct; he was a hammer used by commanders who knew exactly where to swing him.

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At war’s end, Ivan was awarded a ceremonial hammer, sickle, and shield. He returned the hammer and sickle “to the people,” allowing them to be placed on display in Moscow, but he kept the shield as his personal symbol of service.

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After World War II, Ivan’s life became smaller. From the late 1940s into the 1980s, he was used for staged appearances, political ceremonies, propaganda campaigns, and scientific examination. Soviet researchers repeatedly attempted to reproduce his condition but failed. His body was treated as state property, his personal life classified, and even his possible descendants hidden behind state secrecy.

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Eventually, exhausted by the tests, speeches, and empty ceremonies, Ivan returned to his family’s collective farm. There, he found meaning in labor: repairing tractors, shodding horses, growing wheat, and helping his rural community survive. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, Ivan remained on the farm, bitter over the loss of the nation he had served but devoted to the people around him.

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The Soltan invasion of Earth in 2000 shattered what remained of Ivan’s life. When Soltan forces reached his collective farm, Ivan fought them with everything he had, but he could not save the families who had begged him to stay. The entire community was executed, leaving Ivan as the sole survivor. He was beaten nearly to death and spent much of the following year recovering.

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When he finally returned home, he discovered that the farm had been replaced by strip clubs and private establishments. Broken by grief, guilt, and cultural displacement, Ivan stopped eating and waited for death.

That was when Generalissimus Semyon Budennii found him.

Rather than dismissing Ivan as a relic, Generalissimus honored him as a hero of the Soviet people. He gave Ivan the one thing post-Soviet Russia had denied him: purpose. Over dinner, Generalissimus spoke of restoring Soviet greatness, rebuilding strength, and correcting the humiliation of the nation’s collapse. Ivan, emotionally vulnerable and desperate to believe his sacrifices still mattered, accepted the offer to join the Red Guard, later known as the Soviet Guard.

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Ivan’s loyalty was renewed, but so was his usefulness as a symbol.

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When the Soviet Guard attempted to reclaim power, Ivan was manipulated into following orders that helped remove him from the decisive conflict. After the failed operation, he was freed by Generalissimus and relocated with the loyalist forces to the Soviet Guard’s secret base in Greenland. Among the troops, Ivan’s presence restored morale. To them, he was not merely a soldier. He was proof that the Soviet dream had not died.

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Ivan later participated in the Soviet Guard’s brutal occupation of Lithuania. Though disturbed by the forced labor, child exploitation, and cruelty inflicted under Generalissimus’ rule, Ivan lacked the will to fully rebel. He quietly brought bread and water to civilians, especially children, but continued serving the regime. This moral weakness defines him: Ivan knows suffering when he sees it, but he still obeys the man causing it.

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After being wounded and captured during the retreat from Lithuania, Ivan was extracted by Soviet Guard forces and returned to Greenland. Since then, he has remained one of the Soviet Guard’s most powerful and beloved internal symbols.

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Today, Comrade Ivan is a loyal member of the Soviet Guard, a living relic of Soviet myth, and one of Generalissimus’ most useful emotional weapons. He is kind to children, respected by troops, gentle in private moments, and monstrous when ordered into battle. In downtime, he works in the Greenland base’s hydroponics bay, insisting that farming is “good for the Soviet soul.”

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Ivan is not evil because he enjoys cruelty. He is dangerous because he has confused loyalty, grief, nostalgia, and obedience for righteousness.

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