Secret Origin of Political Commissar

Name: Raisa Ogorodnikova
Rank: KGB Captain, Political Commissar
Age: 34 (plus 30 years of criogenic sleep)

History:

In the 60s communist government of the CCCP attend to the North American birth of a great amount of superheroes. This supposed a great preoccupation to sovietic’s leaders that looked for a sooner solution to balance the situation.

The CCCP joined under the name of Orzhov Project the best scients of the age. Its intention was simple, the creation of the first generation of soviet superheroes. Their first creation was the Orzhov Gas. In the correct amount it increased the physical and mental capacities. But many died or developed diseases by the gas, and only a few seemed to have stable, superhuman capacities.

After the dangerous experiments with Orzhov Gas, the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics was entrusted to develope safer super-soldier procedures using the new, top-secret Kotelnikov-Orzhov EM Chamber to increase brain activity. The final procedure was safer, but expensive, and very few candidates developed stable mental powers. One of them was a new KGB recruit, Raisa Ogorodnikova.

With new powers, capable of controlling minds of friends and foes, she was ordered to join the first CCCP supergroup, the Red Men, as their Political Commissar. She was entrusted to protect them, but also to protect the country if one of them became a traitor. Her main role was to support them using her mental powers to confuse the enemy, improve their combat coordination and to heal their minds and bodies.

At 70’s, the soviet government in decay decided to end the group activities, since the project was left without confidence nor subencion. The original members were victims of a trap and were frozen in a cryogenic camera, forgotten with the passage the years.

They rested there until comrade Lenin, revived thanks to the nuclear power of Chernobil, investigated on the Orzhov project and found the vault where the four heroes rested. He revived and gave a new mission to them, adapted to the new times: to fight by the Red ideals in the heart of America, Paragon City!