Kurgan

''' is one of the main characters in '. Selecting the preferred nationality is a purely cosmetic choice, with no gameplay impact. A Russian marine. His violent nature made him a Hero of the Soviet Union, until his experiences on the Eastern Front finally broke his mind.

Background
If Stalin ever needed a poster boy for the term "Crazy Ivan', then Kurgan is the man. Even among a military as fierce as the Red Army, his capacity for violence stands out. A little too much, perhaps. His unit was betrayed by their own officer in Leningrad, and it seems Kurgan took a rather dim view of that. He went on a one man Crusade and tracked the traitor to a fortified German hill at Kursk. By the light of a pyre of burning corpses, he killed every single man between him and the traitor, whose head he cleaved with a spade. How lovely. He was tried in absentia - for insubordination and sentenced to death, but that doesn't seem to have reduced his enthusiasm for killing fascists in the least.