Shadows Of Moscow

Chapter 18

The Red Square Incident:

Chapter 18-

Echoes of Revenge

21st December, 1953

A child was born to the Makhilov family who were miserably poor. They barely had food to eat. They only ate 2 times per day. Due to these reasons, Ivan was malnourished and underweight for the first 15 years of his life. Ivan's dad was a garbage collector and his mom would go to the streets to beg. In 1955 his mother got arrested because some rich man called the police on her and accused her of assaulting him.

Ivan's mother had a nice reputation in the streets. She was known as a humble and kind beggar. Everyone in the street defended Ivan's mother but the rich man would pay the cop to arrest her.

Since they didn't have any money for a bail, she would serve the next year in the prison.

She would be usually assaulted in the prison due to her low background which caused her to commit suicide just 3 months after she got into the prison. This infuriated Ivan but he was poor and he knew it. He knew he couldn't do anything. So he just had to let it go and move forward in life. Get rich and successful and avenge his mother in this way.

His father dealt with garbage everyday which caused him to get sick often. Getting sick this often did cause them to burn through their money but it also provided Ivan's father immunity from getting the disease easily. In 1960, his father got sick again. They thought he would soon recover but he wasn't able to. This was some kind of plaque that had affected Ivan's father. Not having much energy due to eating little amounts of food prevented his body from recovering.

Ivans father met death in 1961.

Ivan, having no one left in his family, packed up the little belongings he had along with 1000 SUR (Soviet Rubles) and left on foot to Saransk where an army trial was being held. Though Ivan was only 8 at the time, he had done extremely well in all the exercises. The commander had taken notice and took Ivan into his personal training sessions. He also provided Ivan with food, Supplies and a place to live

9th october, 1974

Ivan is now about 20 years old. He has now become a Lieutenant-General in the Soviet army climbing through the ranks at such a young age. He would participate in several wars and lead several successful campaigns. Through all these wars, Ivan became patriotic. He became popular among the people. He had achieved success.

In 1980 Ivan would become the Generalissimus of the Soviet Union which was the highest military rank in the Soviet Union. He would lead a lot more campaigns with major success.

He would then retire from the army and join a secret government organization known as the Guardian Corps which protected the people of Russia from terrorists and other major threats.

He would serve as the Supreme Guardian, the highest rank of the Guardian Corps. He would meet his demise in the Red Square Incident.