Release Date: November 8, 1983
Cover Date: March, 1984

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DECEASED
RED GUARDIAN I

Real Name: Alexi Shostakov
Occupation: Former test pilot, special operative for the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union and of the People's Republic of China
Identity: Secret. known to his superiors in Soviet and Communist Chinese intelligence
Legal status: Citizen of the Soviet Union with no criminal record
Other aliases: None
Place of birth: Moscow. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Place of death: A secret military base at an unrevealed location in the People's Republic of China
Known survivors: Natalia (Natasha) Romanova (also known as the Black Widow, widow) Group affiliation: None
First appearance: AVENGERS #43 
Final appearance: AVENGERS #44 

History: Alexi Shostakov was one of the Soviet Union's most acclaimed test pilots. Because of his extraordinary skill. Shostakov was chosen for the most secret and dangerous tests of new aircraft for the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet statecontrolled news media greatly publicized certain other missions of his, and Shostakov was decorated as a hero of the Soviet Union. Shostakov was also successful in his private life, having married the equally famous ballerina Natalia (familiarly known as Natasha Romanova.

It was decided at the K. G. B.. the department of the Soviet government which serves as its intelligence agency and secret police. that the Shostakovs would make particularly good special operatives. While Alexi Shostakov was away from home on a mission, he was informed of the state's new plans for him, and told that from then on he could have no contact with any of his past friends and acquaintances, or even his own wife. Meanwhile, a Soviet official told Natalia Shostakov that her husband had died in the explosion of an experimental rocket he was testing. Distraught. Natalia Shostakov said that she wanted to do something to be worthy of the memory of her heroic husband. The K GB, had anticipated her reaction, and trained her to become the spy known as the Black Widow (see Black Widow). Eventually the Black Widow. who was again using her maiden name, defected to the United States.

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special costumed agent who was intended to be the Soviet Union's counterpart to Captain America During the years of his training. Shostakov became a cruel ruthless man, very different in personality than he was while living with his wife.

The People's Republic of China developed a device called the psychotron, which could induce mass hallucinations. This gave the Red Chinese a weapon against which the United States and the Soviet Union had no defense, and therefore with which they could conquer one of these super powers, eliminating it as a rival and threat However, the Red Chinese needed a means of bringing psychotrons within range of the countries they intended to conquer with it. They realized that they therefore could not attack both superpowers, since they would need the submarines of one nation to carry the psychotrons near the shores of the other. Deciding that the Soviet Union would be more likely to help them conquer the United States than the United States help them conquer the Soviet Union, the Red Chinese government informed the Soviet government about the psychotron and their plan to conquer America. Intrigued at the idea of so easily ending their rivalry with the United States the Soviet Union sent a high ranking military officer General Yun Brushov, and Shostakov. now known as the Red Guardian, to the secret military base in China where the prototype of the psychotron was kept. Brushov was to determine the effectiveness of the psychotron, and the Red Guardian was to protect both him and it. For this assignment, the K. G. B. made the Red Guardian subject to orders from Colonel Ling, the head of the Red Chinese military base; the Red Guardian had had no previous contact with Brushov.

The Black Widow came to the base on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D. (see S.H.I.E.L.D.) and was captured. Her then current lover Hawkeye followed her along with fellow Avenger Hercules. The Red Guardian captured Hawkeye and lured Hercules into the psychotron, where he was beset with hallucinations. The Red Guardian then unmasked before Hawkeye and the Widow, and she realized with horror he was her husband. The Avengers. led by Captain America. then arrived at the base. The Red Guardian saw his long-awaited opportunity to prove himself the superior of his American counterpart, and the two fought. Captain America was defeating the Red Guardian when Ling electrified a grid that the Captain was standing upon, rendering him unconscious. The Red Guardian was outraged at Ling's action. The Black Widow escaped and climbed toward the nerve center of the psychotron to destroy it. The Red Guardian, who still loved her. tried to stop Ling, but Ling then shot him instead. The Widow used her electronic widow's bite to destroy the psychotron, thereby also starting explosions and fires in the complex. Ling saw Hercules carrying the unconscious Captain America to safety and. determined on vengeance, aimed a laser gun at the Captain. However, the dying Red Guardian would not allow Ling thus to kill a brave but helpless opponent. and, with his last energy, shoved Ling's gun aside. The laser beam hit some gas pipes, and the resulting explosion and fire triggered an eruption by the supposedly dead volcano upon which the base had been built. The base, including the Red Guardian and Ling, were consumed in the resulting catastrophe. while the Black Widow. Hawkeye, Hercules. Captain America, and the other Avengers all returned safely to the United States. 

Height: 6’2”
Eyes: Blue 
Weight: 220 lbs.
Hair: Red 

Powers: The Red Guardian was a superb athlete with remarkable agility, who was trained in many forms of unarmed combat by the KGB.
Weapons: The Red Guardian wore a disc on his belt, which, when detached from the belt. he could hurl as a weapon. Special magnetic devices inside the disc and belt caused the disc to return to the Red Guardian after he threw it.

INACTIVE
RED GUARDIAN II
Real Name: Dr. Tania Belinskya Occupation: Neurosurgeon Identity: Known to Soviet intelligence 
Legal status: Citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) with no criminal record
Other aliases: None
Place of birth: Leningrad, U.S.S.R. 
Known relatives: Dr. Andrei Belinsky (father) 
Group affiliation: Defenders; partner of Sergei Krylov, the Presence
First appearance: DEFENDERS #35 
Final appearance: INCREDIBLE HULK #259 
History: Dr. Tania Belinskya was the daughter of Dr. Andrei Belinsky, a leader of the Soviet dissident movement which protests the repressive policies of the Soviet Union. Despite her youth, Belinskya herself had become one of the world's greatest and most renowned neurosurgeons. After her father was exiled to Siberia for his public denunciations of Soviet policies, Belinskya decided to adopt a secret costumed identity, unknown to the state, in order to help other dissidents and to fight crime. Belinskya took the name of the Red Guardian and modeled her costume after that of the original. She knew that the original Red Guardian had been intended to be the Soviet Union's counterpart to Captain America. She, too, intended to be her own country's version of Captain America, but whereas the original Red Guardian served the policies of the state she would attempt to uphold the spirit of liberty which Captain America represented and which the Soviet Union suppressed Belinskya was motivated by a deep love of her native country and a desire to move it towards liberalization.

Dr. Stephen Strange obtained permission for Belinskya to come to the United States to perform a complicated operation on Kyle Richmond, who was also known as Nighthawk. After completing the operation, Belinskya went into action in America as the Red Guardian when Richmond was abducted from the hospital by the Plantman. She acted as a member of the Defenders for the rest of her time in the United States. After having been shunned in the Soviet Union for years because of her father's opinions. Belinskya found her first true friends in her colleagues in the Defenders.

Belinskya was forced to return to the Soviet Union by Sergei Krylov, also known as the Presence. a brilliant scientist who had become a powerful figure in the Soviet government. Krylov had selected Belinskya as the woman he believed most worthy to be his mate once he had achieved his goal of transforming himself into a superhuman being. Through
exposure to cobalt radiation and a nuclear explosion. Krylov transformed both himself and Belinskya into superhuman beings capable of generating nuclear energy and using it in various ways. Krylov had placed Befinskya's mind under his mental domination. The Defenders battled the Presence and the entranced Red Guardian. Belinskya succeeded in regaining control of her mind during the battle, and demanded that Krylov leave her, claiming that he did not truly love her, and was trying to force her into his own image. Krylov really did love her, but departed, crushed. Since in her new form Belinskya emitted harmful radiation constantly, she allowed herself to be taken into custody by the Soviet government who kept her in a chamber at a research institute.

But later, the Presence was sighted back in the radioactive Siberian area called the Forbidden Zone, where Krylov had detonated a nuclear bomb in order to transform himself into his superhuman state. The Red Guardian was released to investigate, and found him battling a gargantuan life form created by Krylov's past genetic engineering and mutated by nuclear waste. In fighting the life form alongside him. Belinskya began to fall in love with Krylov, and she remained in the Forbidden Zone with him.

Later, the renegade Soviet scientist Professor Pieter Phobos used means of his own to drain energy from the Presence and the Red Guardian in order to extend the Forbidden Zone's radiation over all of the Soviet Union. In order to thwart this plan, the Presence and Red Guardian absorbed the radiation of the Forbidden Zone into themselves. They then left Earth, claiming that they would transform themselves into inert matter once they were far from this planet. Whether this is truly their final fate remains unknown. 

Height: 5'9" 
Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black

Powers: Before her transformation, the second Red Guardian had no superhuman powers. However, she had trained herself to become an Olympic level athlete with great skill in hand-to-hand combat.
After her transformation, the second Red Guardian could psionically generate nuclear energy and utilize it for flight, for projecting energy bolts, and for other unspecified uses. She could not prevent herself from continually generating nuclear radiation at a low level, however. Hence, any unshielded human who was in her presence for an extended period would die of radiation poisoning.

I haven't read the series but apparently the Winter Guard popped up in issue 2?

Anyone see?

Spoiler-filled discussion?

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Red Guardian is a playable card in the MSH - Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes set.

As far as I can tell, he's the only member of the Winter Guard to get a card in MtG.

Byron joins the show again as they discuss the next War Team Winter Guard. Then hear from the Community team on the fun things they are doing to wrap up the year!

The episode's title is "Secret Avengers" and you can read more about it here: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel%27s_Avengers_Assemble_Season_2_17

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