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Fictional Character Biography

Born in the Soviet village of Kronas some time in the late 1930s, Lukin's village was used by the Red Skull as a base of operations during the Second World War. When Soviet troops attempted to retake the town, assisted by the Western Allies' superhero team the Invaders (including Captain America and Bucky), Lukin's mother was killed in the course of the battle. The leader of the Soviet forces, Vasily Karpov, took the orphaned Lukin under his wing. Soviet redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Red Skull is a Marvel Comics supervillain who is the archenemy of Captain America. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Western Allies were the democracies and their colonial peoples, within the broader coalition of Allies during World War II. The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (from 1939), exiled forces from Occupied Europe (from 1940), the United States, (from 1941), Italy... The Invaders is the name of two fictional superhero teams in the Marvel Comics universe. ... This article is about a superhero; for the eurobeat artist, see Gianni Coraini. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this comics-related article or section may require cleanup. ...

In the ensuing decades, Lukin became an important figure in the Soviet military and the KGB, rising to the rank of general. When his mentor, Karpov, passed away, Lukin was left in custody of a large cache of special projects developed over the decades, including the Winter Soldier. He sold some of these devices to the highest bidders to raise funds; in one instance, he sold weapons to the Red Skull himself, but refused to part with the Winter Soldier for anything less than the Cosmic Cube (which the Skull was not in possession of, and certainly would not give up in any case). The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this comics-related article or section may require cleanup. ... A Cosmic Cube Cosmic Cube is the name of a fictional device that exists in the Marvel Universe. ...

Five years after that meeting, the Skull finally recovered the Cube, only to be assassinated by the Winter Soldier on Lukin's orders. However, before he died, the Skull used the Cube to transfer his mind into Lukin's body, leaving the two men stuck together "like rats in a cage." Convinced that any use of the Cube only lead to misfortune, Lukin sent it away after he harmed a friend of his in a fit of rage, but not before using it to make the Kronas Corporation (Lukin's new legitimate business) even wealthier. The cube was then destroyed by the Winter Soldier, who realized who he was. Since then, the two have worked uneasily against their common foe, Captain America, even as the Skull wages a campaign for control of Lukin's body (Lukin vows to kill himself before allowing that to happen).