Alexei Bludovich

Alexei Bludovich was a Political Commissar during WW2.

Biography
Bludovich was born in Saint Petersburg, 1901. His father was a factory worker that would be conscripted in WW1 and die in 1914. Despite only being 16 years old, Bludovich would participate in Communist demonstration during both the February and October Revolutions of 1917, he would then fight in the Russian Civil War for the Red Army and stay in it after the war.

From 1936 to 1938, Stalin purged the officer corps of the Red Army. This was an opportunity for Bludovich as he supported Stalin and he would end up becoming a Political Commissar, a political officer equal in rank to a military commander of a unit. He would fight in the Winter War and during Operation Barbarossa of WW2, but was taken out of direct military command in 1942 as political commissars were now limited to support roles only. He wouldn't see action again until 1945, when he would be filled with patriotism due to being on the offensive in Germany now. He would force himself on to the frontlines into combat, despite it being against policy.

During the Battle of Berlin, Bludovich would find himself trapped in an apartment with an infantry squad and a sniper team (Vladimir and Boris Dikov). They were low on ammo and pinned down by a German machine gun with no hope of reinforcements. Bludovich would pull out his pistol and urge the others to fix bayonets; they would then charge out of the building all at once while the machine gun was reloading, but all be killed by the Germans.