Fictional team history

The Supreme Soviets is a fictional team of Russia

Russia

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n superheroes in the Marvel Universe

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. This team of costumed champions operated under the supervision of the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The team's membership consisted of Crimson Dynamo V

Dmitri Bukharin

Dmitri Bukharin, also known as the Crimson Dynamo and Airstrike, is a fictional character in the .He first appeared in Iron Man #109 , created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Carmine Infantino...

 (Dmitri Bukharin), Fantasia

Fantasia (comics)

Fantasia is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. She is a Russian soldier with super-powers.-Publication history:Fantasia first appeared in Captain America #352-353 , and was created by Mark Gruenwald and Kieron Dwyer....

, Perun

Perun (comics)

Perun is a Marvel Comics character based on the mythical deity in Slavic mythology, with control over thunder and lightning similar to that of the Norse god Thor.-Publication history:...

 the Russian storm god, Red Guardian (Josef Petkus), and Sputnik

Sputnik (comics)

Sputnik is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Sputnik first appeared in Captain America #352-353 , and was created by Mark Gruenwald and Kieron Dwyer....

.

When the Soviet Super-Soldiers

Soviet Super-Soldiers

The Soviet Super-Soldiers are a fictional super team in the Marvel Comics universe.-History:The Soviet Super-Soldiers were a superteam that was brought together by the Soviet government of Russia to be the counterpart of American teams like the Avengers and Fantastic Four. Professor Phobos founded...

 refused as a matter of conscience to take orders from the Soviet government anymore, the government organized the Supreme Soviets, a new militant team which would be loyal to the Soviet Union. Crimson Dynamo joined this team after being expelled from the Soviet Super-Soldiers when his teammates learned of his loyalty to the government that had betrayed them. When the Soviet government tried to force the remaining Soviet Super-Soldiers (Vanguard, Ursa Major

Ursa Major (comics)

Ursa Major is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe, and a former member of the Soviet Super-Soldiers...

, Darkstar

Darkstar (comics)

Darkstar is a fictional character, a mutant superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. She has been a member of various super-teams in her career, including X-Corporation and Champions of Los Angeles.-Fictional character biography:...

) to enlist in the new Supreme Soviets team, the three instead decided to defect to the United States. Captain America

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 allowed them to stay at an Avengers

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 base while they applied for political asylum.

The Supreme Soviets were ordered to punish the three Soviet Super-Soldiers for their attempted defection. Fantasia used her ability to cast illusions to disguise the Supreme Soviets as Avengers members: Red Guardian as Captain America, Perun as Thor

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, Crimson Dynamo as Iron Man

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, and Sputnik as the Vision, and made herself invisible. The disguised Supreme Soviets battled the Soviet Super-Soldiers, defeating them and beating them severely, leaving them in critical condition.

Captain America traveled to the Soviet Union to find out who perpetrated the attacks. The three dying heroes projected their spirits into a creature of animated darkforce

Darkforce

-Description:It is a powerful, extra-dimensional energy that can be manipulated in slightly different ways by a handful of beings that are attuned to it. There are slight yet inconclusive hints that it may be a corruptive influence of some kind and perhaps even sentient...

, using Darkstar's powers, and attacked Captain America and the Supreme Soviets. The animated bear-like monster absorbed the Supreme Soviets, and tried to use their life-forces to restore the Soviet Super-Soldiers. Captain America persuaded the spirits not to kill the others, and the black shape disappeared. Captain America returned home to discover the three Russian heroes making a rapid recovery.

Further appearances

The group would later confront the Hulk

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 and the Pantheon

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 over the kidnapping of the Soviet citizen Igor Drenkov. Igor had been Bruce Banner's assistant during the original gamma bomb test and had forced the bombing to go despite Bruce's orders to shut it down. The Supreme Soviets fight Hulk and his forces at the base where the original explosion happened. The two sides fight to a draw. Nobody is quite sure what to do when Igor goes quite mad.

Demise and return

After the Soviet Union was dissolved, the team becomes known as The People's Protectorate. Eventually, that team broke up and its members merged with the Soviet Super-Soldiers to form the new Russian super-team, the Winter Guard

Winter Guard

The Winter Guard is a fictional team of Russian superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe.The Winter Guard are noted for being "Russia's answer to the Avengers",.. Several members of the group formerly belonged to the Soviet Super-Soldiers, the People's Protectorate and the Supreme Soviets...

. Due to the Winter Guard's experiment of integrating DNA of the deceased Darkstar into other women to give them the original's powers, part of the Winter Guard resigned and reformed the Protectorate. To bring the original Darkstar back to life, they decide to work for Immortus

Immortus

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, protecting his castle against Dire Wraiths. Steel Guardian is killed and Fantasma is revealed to be a Dire Wraith all along. After Fantasma escapes back to earth, the Protectorate follows her. Only Vanguard is left unharmed and decides to become the Winter Guards new Red Guardian.

New team

A new team calling themselve the Supreme Soviets appears on the trail of Black Widow and Hawkeye

Hawkeye (comics)

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 in the limited series Widowmaker

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. The team consists of old member Perun

Perun (comics)

Perun is a Marvel Comics character based on the mythical deity in Slavic mythology, with control over thunder and lightning similar to that of the Norse god Thor.-Publication history:...

 and new versions of Crimson Dynamo

Crimson Dynamo

The Crimson Dynamo is the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics Universe, most of whom have been supervillains. The various Crimson Dynamos have been powered armor-wearing Russian or Soviet agents who have clashed with the superhero Iron Man over the course of his heroic career...

, Fantasma

Fantasia (comics)

Fantasia is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. She is a Russian soldier with super-powers.-Publication history:Fantasia first appeared in Captain America #352-353 , and was created by Mark Gruenwald and Kieron Dwyer....

 and Sputnik

Sputnik (comics)

Sputnik is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Sputnik first appeared in Captain America #352-353 , and was created by Mark Gruenwald and Kieron Dwyer....

.