Aside from Tanya, if anyone else in Red Alert 2 is the real protagonist, except for the commander, it should be Yuri, the Soviet military adviser.
Foreign wikis say that Yuri's full name is Yuri Grigorievich Popov, and Baidu Encyclopedia says that Yuri's full name is Nonolius Yuri, but no matter what it is called, in the end everyone will only call him Yuri or political commissar, so there is no entanglement here.
Yuri is undoubtedly the real protagonist of Red Alert 2, the story of Red Alert 2 begins with the soviet union's total invasion of the United States, and then includes the expansion pack "Yuri's Revenge" to tell the story of this war, although the war was started by Prime Minister Romanov, but it is thanks to Yuri's assistance that the Soviet Union was able to re-develop powerful military technology after World War II under the supervision of the United States.
Not only that, almost all the key plots in the game are related to Yuri, originally the United States wanted to use nuclear bombs to launch a counterattack, and as a result, Yuri used mind control technology, resulting in the failure to open the hatch of the nuclear bomb silo in time, all the nuclear bombs in the United States were destroyed, and the commander suffered heavy casualties, leaving only the player alone.
The military command of the Soviet side was basically entrusted to Yuri, although it seemed that it was Romanov who gave the orders, but Romanov listened to Yuri's words, and was completely controlled by Yuri in the Soviet campaign, except for Lieutenant Zofia, Yuri had the most appearance time.
And the Red Alert 2 expansion pack "Yuri's Revenge" is not to mention, from the name can be seen that this is a large DLC around Yuri, the Allied forces and the Soviet Union a total of 14 levels, each level is playing Yuri.
Yuri's promotion is very legendary, he was appreciated by Stalin as the leader of the psychic research department, and then by Prime Minister Romanov as a military adviser, and then used psychic control to become the de facto leader of the Soviet Union, and even threatened the security of the whole world (in the Psychic End mod, it is even more full), and Yuri's archetypes are also very legendary.
There are many theories about Yuri's inspiration, for example, from the image and the photo with Stalin shown in the game, Westwood's inspiration is likely to be the revolutionary mentor Lenin, and judging from his participation in Stalin's secret experiments, Yuri may have borrowed from the experience of the legendary Wolf Maysin.
Wolf Maysing is a controversial figure, some people say that he has many superpowers, can control people's minds, read people's minds, and even predict the future, while others say that he is a deceitful liar, just good at a little bit of the art of detecting colors (similar words Mei Xing himself said).
In Wolf Maysing's autobiography, many of his legends are recorded, such as in 1915, Wolf Maysing toured Vienna with the circus, psychologist Freud and scientist Einstein were very interested in his superpowers, and asked Wolf Maysin to do a small experiment, and Wolf Maysing saw his inner thoughts without Freud saying a word.
Another example is that after Hitler came to power, Wolf Maysin was arrested by the Gestapo, who used hypnosis to invade the Gestapo's brain, ordered them to open the door, and successfully escaped to the Soviet border.
In the Soviet Union, Wolf Mayk was received by Stalin, who demonstrated his superpowers in front of Stalin, used hypnosis to convince the guards that he was the police chief Beria, and managed to enter the Kremlin without a pass.
The story about Wolf Meixing is true or false, it is difficult to say how much Yuri in the game is affected by him, and from the netizens' research, yuri's role is more likely to come from a cult leader.
Yuri Krivonov, the head of the Great White Brotherhood, a cult that emerged in Ukraine in 1990, and his wife named Maria Zvigon, and the two of them experienced the cult together.
Their doctrine proclaims that humanity will suffer the Great Tribulation, that Krivonov is the god of mortality, and that Maria Zvigon is the living God and savior, and that at the end of the world, Mary will lead her followers to commit suicide and ascend to heaven together.
Under the guidance of this young couple, countless young people were brainwashed, children stole property from home to dedicate to the church, fanatics even chose to run away from home and decided to live with the church leader, because of the parents' report, the leader Krivonov was criminally held criminally responsible by the Ukrainian police, for which the church was forced to move to neighboring Belarus, Moldado, Russia and other places.
In 1993, the Great White Brotherhood declared November 24 to be the end of the world, on which the faithful would attend Mary's ascension ceremony and accompany her to commit suicide, after which the Church announced that the end was advanced to November 14, and Mary would commit suicide on November 10 and be resurrected on November 14.
The incident caused tension among the Ukrainian police, who arrested many believers, many of whom wanted to go on a hunger strike, and the hospital arranged for forced feeding after they lost consciousness.
Finally, at the Sofia Church, the police clashed with the believers, arrested them, and accidentally arrested Bishop Krivonov and Maria, and the two cult leaders finally fell into justice.
Although the Great White Brotherhood lost some of its followers because the end of the world did not happen, there were still some people who went underground to continue their activities, and the climax of the development of the Great White Brotherhood, the fanaticism shown by some believers, made many people think that Krivonov had the ability to control the thinking of others, and it just so happened that his name also carried Yuri, even from the perspective of Simsuhei, it was not surprising that a cult leader was designed as a soviet high-level.
However, this is not the only statement about Yuri's inspiration, during the Cold War, the scientific and technological exploration between the United States and the Soviet Union is unimaginable to us now, from the earth to outer space, from metaphysics to science, both sides are carrying out mysterious research that is not known to outsiders.
In addition to the Soviet Union's Wolf Maysin and Leonid Leonidovich Vasiliev and other psychics, the United States also has a famous stargate program, there are also russell Tower, Pat Price and other well-known psychics, in order to prevent being overtaken by other countries, the study of the big countries must be comprehensive, even if only the possibility needs to spend a lot of money to invest, so as a superpower, few superpower research departments are a strange thing.
The role of Yuri is actually not easy to play, as a psychic, and has the ability to brainwash, but also the top level of the Soviet Union, how to perfectly express science and metaphysics, sensibility and reason in the same role is a big test for the actor.
Here I have to admire The casting of Westwood again, and I can find Udo Chiel to play Yuri.
Born on October 14, 1944, Udo Chiel was a German actor who was born in Cologne, near the end of World War II, where the hospital was bombed by invading Allies shortly after his birth, and he and his mother were dug out of the rubble. As a young man, Udo Chiel served as an altar boy and lead singer before moving to England to study English.
In 1966, Chiel starred in the film Road to St. Tropez, and because of his unique appearance, after devoting himself to film, he often starred in vampire films such as "Frankenstein's Flesh" in 1973, "Devil's Blood" in 1974, and "I Have a Contract with Zombies" (not "I Have a Date with Zombies") in 2000.
There is reason to suspect that it is precisely because of Udo Chil's role in that mysterious vampire role that Westwood decided to choose him as Yuri's character, after all, Yuri's mysterious temperament as a psychic is no different from that of a vampire, not to mention that the actor's deep voice is still so magnetic.
If you only look at the photo of the actor himself, it is difficult for the player to believe that he is Yuri's actor. Yes, Udo Chil is not bald, his skin is not so white, and he does not have a beard, and when Yun Youji saw the behind-the-scenes footage, he was shocked that the gap between Yuri and Qile himself was so large, because his performance in the game was so natural.
Overall, for domestic audiences, Udo Chiel is not very famous, he did appear in some of the more well-known films, such as the 1994 "Detective Plane Head" starring Jim Carrey, the 2003 Danish film "Dogtown", but most of his roles in the film are only supporting roles, Hollywood does not lack good actors, not every actor with excellent acting skills can become a big name.
Udo Chiel has appeared in more than two hundred films, and according to himself, of the two hundred or so films, 100 are not good, 50 are OK, 50 are good, and in the minds of many players, the character of Yuri he has created is probably the best of the more than two hundred.