However Snake was mentally trained to resist physical torture, but a transmitter fell off of him that the Boss had put there, supposedly to make it easier for the Cobra Unit to find him. While in his fortress, he managed to catch Snake, who’d disguised himself as Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, to find Sokolov.Įnraged that he hurt Raikov, Volgin beat him senseless and brought him to an interrogation cell where he tortured him with electrocution. After The Pain, The Fear, and The End were killed, Volgin sent in Flame Troops to avenge them by burning Snake alive. Volgin called in a Hind helicopter and additional soldiers to help guard Krasnogorje, so as to make sure Snake didn't get into Groznyj Grad. However, he killed Granin in the process before he said anything and found a transmitter in his shoes, which meant he either was a spy or it was planted on him. Volgin arrested and tortured him by trapping him in an oil drum, then striking it with his enormous strength and electrical powers. However, he didn’t realize the spy was Tatyana, who he constantly abused, but did think that Granin was a spy. During the operation, Snake's constant intervention in his plans, as well as the presence of a spy in his ranks, angered Volgin greatly. This set off a whole international incident and started Operation Snake Eater. He intended to frame the US government for this, but in actuality, the DCI had manipulated Volgin into doing this as part of a plan to assassinate the Boss. However, Volgin, having not anticipated the US government’s actions, fired an American-made nuclear warhead at Sokolov's research facility. The Boss accepted, but unbeknownst to Volgin, this was actually part of a plan by the US government to obtain the Philosopher’s Legacy from him and expose Shagohod’s development.Ī month later, Volgin supervised the Boss’ official defection and ordered her to kill Naked Snake since he saw Volgin's face, as well as the fact that the Boss wouldn’t let him join them. Volgin contacted The Boss in 1964, using the spy network of a Philosopher and suggested that she defect to the Soviet Union so as to overthrow Khrushchev without endangering his own position. But it soon became clear Granin wasn't getting the results Volgin wanted and thus he turned to the Shagohod idea. Volgin then conspired with the army and the Brezhnev faction to bring down Khrushchev After Khrushchev joined forces with Sokolov’s Shagohod, Volgin hired Alexander Leonovitch Granin, hoping to have him construct a Metal Gear. Volgin also obtained the blueprints for the Objekt 279 tank after the project to build it was deemed too expensive and was able to construct at least eight with the Philosopher's Legacy. With it, he built a huge fortress, Groznyj Grad, in the Tselinoyarsk mountains. Volgin aided in putting down the East Germany Uprising and Hungarian Revolution and has stated that he personally killed over 100,000 anti-communist activists.Īt some point before 1964, Volgin’s father, Boris Volgin, died, allowing him to illegally acquire the Philosopher’s Legacy, an enormous cache of money collected from China, the Soviet Union, and the US.
He also served in the Soviet Secret Police, the NKVD, and was given the job of punishing anyone who tried to desert the Red Army, blaming prisoner revolts to alleviate fear. They would often remove the Poles’ blindfolds before he beat them to death.
In World War II, he participated in the Katyn Forest Massacre, where 20,000 Polish soldiers were massacred and Volgin. 1.4 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painīorn sometime in the late 1900’s to early 1910’s, Volgin became a boxing champion as a young man.1.3 Post- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.and Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. He was voiced by Neil Ross in Metal Gear Solid 3 who also voiced the Cyclops in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the Mad Bomber in the Spider-Man 3 video game adaptions, Grandfather in Operation: Z.E.R.O. Despite this, his humanity was all but gone, and he had to be controlled by Tretji Rebenok. He is revealed to have been comatose (not killed), after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3. In the 2015 video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Volgin returns as a major antagonist, now known as the Man on Fire. He is a Stalinist GRU colonel who attempted to seize control and overthrow Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union. Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin (Russian: Евгений Борисович Волгин), or also better known as either Colonel Volgin or Thunderbolt, is the main antagonist in the 2004 video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.