Hello comrades!
This review will be about Viktor Karandakov, a hero of the soviet union, who killed over 200 finish soldiers with his smart tactic and his machinegun, and when he was out of ammo, a couple more with his bayonet. Furthermore, he saved a commander and survived a mine explosion.
Viktor Karandakov´s stats:
Radio operator II
Starter perk: +70% of health restored by medpack
Mobility: 22
Vitality: 18
Weapon Handling: 14
Appearance:
Viktor Karandakov in real life:
History:
Viktor Karandakov fought in 1941 against finnish forces, initially as a sapper. In the Pälkjärvi area, units of the Finnish army went on the offensive in the sector of the soviet union. Karandakov started firing from his squads position at enemy soldiers with his light machinegun, stopping two attacks. He noticed that the finnish soldiers tried to flank the position of the soviets and decided to push right forward with 4 other soldiers into their enemies. As they continued to fire on enemies while being surrounded, Karandakov made the finnish soldiers loose orientation. The finnish soldiers could not tell where the soviet position was located anymore, because Karandakov confused them with his plan to charge in the middle of their battalion. While being surrounded, Karandakov´s 5 man squad managed to kill over 100 finnish soldiers.
After they stopped the third attack with this tactic of Karandakov, his little squad was completely out of ammo. Viktor, while staying calm, told his comrades to take out their bayonets and to cover themselves with snow between the other corpses. As soon as the finnish soldiers started a third attack, Karandakovs squad waited till they passed their position, and when the soviets started an counter offensive, Karandakov´s squad started to charge at the finnish soldiers from behind, killing a couple more soldiers with their bayonets. As the soviets reached them, the remaining soldiers of Karandakov´s squad took fallen soldiers rifles and participated in the counter offensive.
On July 14, 1941, in a battle in the Tuurula region (Karelia), a company commander was seriously wounded. Showing contempt for death, the fearless Red Army soldier Viktor Karandakov broke the enemy ring around the wounded commander and carried him out of the battlefield, while finnish soldiers were firing at him.
Shortly after this battle, the courageous sapper was seriously wounded - his leg was torn off by an enemy mine, he was wounded in the arm and eye. He managed to survive the war, after killing over 200 finnish soldiers with his light machinegun. Viktor Karandakov became hero of the soviet union.