Lev Kravchenko is the secondary antagonist of Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010).
Biography[]
Lev Kravchenko was born March 21, 1922 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the lap dog to Nikita Dragovich during WW2 and the Cold War. During WW2, he was a lieutenant in the Red Army. In 1942, he and Nikita Dragovich refused to send reinforcements to Viktor Reznov, Dimitri Petrenko and their squad, leaving them to die at the hands of the Germans thus causing them to forever distrust Dragovich and Kravchenko.
After the war, Dragovich was eventually promoted to a Major General while Kravchenko was promoted to a Colonel. They were also responsible for getting German special needs scientist Frederick Steiner (who was a target of the Nazis, mind you) to defect to the Soviet Union from the USA and the UK. The trio planned on using Nova gas on the USA during the Cold War as Steiner didn’t get the fortune of using it on Japan at the end of WW2. When Petrenko and Reznov threatened to report them, the former was killed and the latter was sent to a gulag called Vorkuta.
Kravchenko was left without a superior after Dragovich was killed by Alex Mason on February 26, 1968. However, he was transferred to the KGB where he began to work as a spymaster. In fact, his apprentices were Anton Charkov, Dimitri Belikov and Imran Zakhaev. In 1981, Belikov framed Charkov for communicating with the Americans and the British when in actuality, it was him. This caused Charkov to be executed.
In 1986, Kravchenko’s last stand came when he was tasked with suppressing rebellions in South Asia and the Middle East, particularly the Taliban, Hamas and Al-Qaeda, all of which would later on become sworn enemies of the USA. The CIA sent Alex Mason, Grigori Weaver, Frank Woods, Russell Adler and Jason Hudson to execute Kravchenko on September 5, 1986 and sure enough they succeeded.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly enough, Lev means lion in Russian while Krav means cow.