The Red Scare

Oleg Dityatin

It was 1950 when Senator Joseph McCarthy attacked President Truman’s administration for being soft on Communism. A year later, the campaign to root the Soviet weeds out of the American garden was gaining momentum. Still, the American public needed a stronger push to fuel their fears, and the voracious McCarthy was willing to help them along by providing them with a villain. Enter Oleg Dityatin, a poor Russian émigré whose family was living in a rundown tenement in the Bronx. Dityatin was one of several Russians willing to undergo risky radiation bombardment to create super-humans. In exchange for participating, their families would automatically receive U.S. citizenship and homes. If Dityatin and the others survived and played the role or public Communist villains, then McCarthy’s supporters would see to their family’s financial well-being for the rest of their lives.
Dityatin was the only survivor of the process and it turned him into a nuclear dynamo. He became the Red Scare, a villain designed to prey on America’s fear of the Soviet machine, and he did his job well. For the next three years, he fought McCarthy’s state-sponsored heroines, the Liberty Belles, in highly scripted events that would make the WWE proud. By 1954, however, the Senate censured McCarthy for “conduct unbecoming a Senator,” while legitimate supers who didn’t know about the act targeted the Red Scare. McCarthy’s bankrollers told Dityatin to keep his mouth shut about the affair if he knew what was good for his family, and he complied for their safety. Finally, in 1957, following McCarthy’s death, authorities caught the Red Scare, and in a whirlwind trial, indicted him. Dityatin remained quiet about everything, despite facing the death penalty, which he escaped thanks to repeated appeals. Finally, President John F. Kennedy commuted Dityatin’s sentence from execution to life in prison.
The Red Scare has remained a federal prisoner for all these years, keeping his involvement with McCarthy secret to protect his family. Recently, however, after being transferred to Lockdown, Dityatin received a visit from Incursion and Warden Creed. Incursion read the Red Scare’s mind, and Creed did some digging. Dityatin’s family was never given citizenship as promised. Instead McCarthy’s men had them deported back to Russia, where they vanished. Creed has offered Dityatin the opportunity to work for The Cartel and earn his freedom. In exchange, the Cartel will locate Dityatin’s family and reunite them. Dityatin has undertaken a few missions for the Cartel, but he hasn’t signed on, as of yet.
Dityatin is a decent man who remained quiet, almost invisible, for years. The only vestige of good left in him was the sacrifice he made for his family, but with that gone, he’s now angry and ready to strike back at the American dream he so eagerly embraced once. He has no reason to be good, anymore. The public saw him as a villain. So be it. He’ll be the villain once more, but not the fop people once remembered. He’s been training, thanks to Warden Creed, and his nuclear fires rage hotter than ever. With this decision, Dityatin is no longer willing to be spit upon and mocked. This will certainly surprise the first poor sap who mocks Dityatin in front of the other prisoners, believing him the easy target.

Current Location

Lockdown

Year of Birth

1932

Gender

Male

Eyes

Green

Hair

Black with white streaks

Height

6'1"

Weight

210 lbs