Dmitri Karbyshev is an aging post-Soviet general who serves as the de jure leader of Omsk. He is Dmitry Yazov's mentor and founder of the All-Russian Black League.
Background[]
During the Great Patriotic War, Karbyshev was an honorable general in the Soviet Union. As the Germans advanced, however, he was seized and taken as a prisoner. He was locked up in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and subject to the worst forms of torture imaginable. He was beaten, tortured, and exhausted by inhumane labor for five years. On his last day inside the camp, he was doused in cold water before being left to die outside in the chilling winter. However, Karbyshev ultimately survived, and escaped the clutches of the Reich and fled back to Russia. The torment he endured in that godforsaken camp changed the course of his life, and left his heart a frozen lump. At an uncertain time, presumably during the West Russian War, he reemerged in the West Siberian People's Republic after he had returned to his home city of Omsk.
Karbyshev served as a lieutenant general under the West Siberian People's Republic, led by Lazar Kaganovich. However, he and Kaganovich's relations were always tense. Driven by his bitterness towards the Germans, as well as his survivalist beliefs, he broke ties with Kaganovich and founded the All-Russian Black League, taking control of Omsk. He believed that the leadership of his new league was the only way that Russia could survive the impending Great Trial, where German and Russian troops meet once more. He became the mentor of Dmitri Yazov, who he destined to succeed him and prepare Russia for the Great Trial. Unbeknownst to him, however, the despots and their clique of officers have twisted his words and effectively destroyed the black league.
Now, as a powerless, dying figurehead, he can only watch his time run out before the All-Russian Black League gears itself towards a war of revenge and destruction against Germany in their final hope of the Great Trial.
Leader Trait[]
| The Caged General
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In-game[]
Dmitry Karbyshev will die from suicide soon after the game starts. His time alive will be spent preparing for the ascension of Dmitry Yazov, his ambitious and competent successor. Afterwards, the fate of Omsk will be in Yazov's hands alone.