Valentin Purgin

Now, with the collapse of the second governing body, he's decided to set his sights even higher. Penza can be much greater than it is, the hero quickly declares. If, of course, they follow him to glory. After all, that's the role of a hero.

The "Shishki" special unit is a Russian bandit group operating in Muscovy. Its leader is Nikolai Pavlenko. Most of its members are based in Penza, where groups of partisans have gathered, sincerely believing in the liberation of Russia from German occupation.

Valentin Purgin

Full name
Valentin Petrovich Purgin (real name - Vladimir Petrovich Golubenko)
Job title
Leader of the "Cones"
Place of residence
Reichskommissariat Muscovy Reichskommissariat Muscovy
Was born
1914 (47 years old)
Ural, Russian Empire

Nationality
Russian
Political party
The Government of the "Bumps"
Political preferences
List of cut sub-ideologies#Stratocracy Stratocracy

Valentin Petrovich Purgin (born Vladimir Petrovich Golubenko) is the head of the "Bumps" bandit group.

Biography
Much has been said about Valentin Purgin. Valentin Purgin is a hero. Valentin Purgin is a man of the people. Valentin Purgin is a leader without equal. But the truth is, Valentin Purgin never spent a single day on the front lines. In fact, Valentin Purgin doesn't even exist.

Vladimir Golubenko was a convicted thief and swindler when, after escaping from a Bukharin-era labor camp, he decided he needed a new identity. He forged a passport and academic credentials under the name Valentin Purgin and found work as a journalist in Sverdlovsk. But this wasn't enough for Golubenko, now Purgin, who had set his sights much higher.

In 1940, after a series of increasingly brazen deceptions and improperly obtained awards, he fabricated a nomination, using stolen military documents, for the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his supposed actions during the Winter War. The medal was awarded less than a month later. The article about this supposed hero, however, exposed him to those who knew him as Golubenko, and it's likely he would have been executed in due time had Operation Barbarossa not taken place and the Union not collapsed. For Purgin, however, the chaos of this collapse was a blessing. Having escaped execution, the supposed hero quickly rallied groups of "partisans" under his banner in the Penza region. In the following years, he exploited the instability of the Reichskommissariat to operate as a bandit with virtual impunity, enriching himself considerably.