Mikhail Oktan

Mikhail Oktan
Personal details
Native name	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Illnich
Date of birth	(Unknown, c. 1910)
Age at start	52 years old
Nationality	Russian (?)
Role	Potential leader of Samara
Political party	Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia
Ideology	Naturalised National Socialism

Mikhail Oktan (born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Ilinich, Михаил Александрович Ильинич; Ukrainian: Михайль Олександрович Іллініч, Russian: Михаил Октан; Ukrainian: Михайло Октан in Odessa, Russian Empire; c. 1910?) is a high-ranking officer of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, notorious for his extreme greed.

Biography

Early-life

Mikhail Oktan was born somewhere around 1910, as there are no substantial certificate documents regarding his exact place of birth, date of birth and what exactly did he do in his youth. So up to the period of World War II, there can only be a wide scale speculation. Most likely of them being that he at one point joined the Red Army during the 1930s after he finished his studies. His true nature would appear when the Great Patriotic War would break out with Germany and the Soviet Union.

World War II and desertion

In the early days of World War II, Oktan was fighting against the Germans efficiently up until at one point, he saw how the USSR started to rapidly lose against the advancing forces of the Third Reich. It is at that point that he voluntarily deserted from a Red Army and joined Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Following the USSR's subsequent collapse, Oktan would find himself in the newly formed Reichskommissariat Moskowien and from that point, he would not be seen again in wider scale until the West Russian War.

West Russian War

When the West Russian War had started, Oktan already had met with Andrey Vlasov, who became partners despite their differences in a cause against communism and to liberate Russia from it. It was during this time that they met up with a former Red Army general Sergei Bunyachenko, whose wish is to destroy the Front and was blamed for all of their failures in the war. While the West Russian Revolutionary Front managed to break through the A-A line and greatly weaken their stronghold on Russia, the Front would collapse and have many of its holdings lost, with only the cold and barren north alongside with territories of Plesetsk and Ukhta remaining in their possession. Unfortunately for all of KONR, this war was the time when they would accidentally find themselves stranded away from the borders of Moskowien, and as a result, would suffer from the constant Luftwaffe bombardments.

Present day

In 1962, the situation for KONR may yet to provide a strong candidate that can lead Russia to its glorious future. However, as all the three candidates realize, most people dislike KONR for being collaborators with the German Reich, and Oktan himself is the manifestation of all those traits that supposedly every member has. Yet one does not need to get rid of them in order to impose your own will and dominance over glorious Russia, as Oktan shall prove himself, no matter the cost or money.

Trivia

• Oktan in real life was a Russian Nazi collaborator during World War II who served as de facto mayor of the city of Oryol under Nazi occupation.
• As he is in this world, Oktan is one of the most mysterious historical figures, as there is almost no information about him in English. His real name was possibly Mikhail Iliynich or Natko, which explains his weird pseudonym. At various points, he claimed Serbian and Croatian ancestry, pretending to be a Balkan baron who had residences in Paris. Possibly, he was a chemical engineer before the war. He allegedly served in the Red Army for a short time before he voluntarily joined the Germans. He set up a journal in occupied Oryol, which was an anti-Semitic publication under the German occupation. He organized children settlements where he sent 7-14 years old kids nominally to raise them in a Nazi spirit, but they really acted as forced blood donors for the Wehrmacht. How he died remains a mystery to this day, with reports of him either fleeing from the battlefield and moving somewhere else, to getting killed by the Red Army.
• Just like Dmitry Yazov, Oktan's post unification portrait has a 5% chance of appearing with sunglasses.
• In the mod's files, there exists an unused portrait of Oktan wearing a German field marshal's uniform, and was likely the oldest variation of Oktan's portrait (hence the "old" in the filename).