Mykola Zubatenko (born 1917) is a Ukrainian communist partisan. He serves as the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic when it rises up in the Ukrainian Civil War.
In-Game Biography[]
Mykola Ivanovych Zubatenko fits well into the idea of a model Chekist, steadfast in conviction, efficient in action, and relentless in pursuit of the enemy. Born in 1917 to a Ukrainian family in Donetsk, Zubatenko would later find himself drafted into the Red Army in 1939 where he chose to join the NKVD. During his studies at the NKVD commissary in Moscow, he felt alienated by his Russian surroundings, wishing soon to return to his homeland of Ukraine.
As Moscow fell, Zubatenko fought as part of a motorized rifle unit and later slipped away to Ukraine, where he would take part in the local communist partisan movement, gaining influence as the Nazi occupation limped on. He had firmly opposed Tymofiy Strokach's catastrophic decision to launch the general uprising in 1956, which pushed Zubatenko towards his now close friend and like-minded associate Shumskyi. Zubatenko now commands the security apparatus of the Communist underground, his one goal - To ensure both that there may be no freedom for the enemies of the revolution and that there must be freedom for its friends, a goal he will attempt to dedicate the rest of his career and life to.