Colonel Strelnikov

Colonel Strelnikov is the main villain of the 1984 American War movie, Red Dawn. He was played by William Smith.



When he makes his intro in the movie, Stelnikov condemns the reprisals, saying that the reprisals are unproductive, which makes the soviets appear weak. Then he talks to his henchmen about counterinsurgency tactics. Strelnikov becomes the Wolervines, the heroes, most deadly enemy although he isn't insane nor a mass murderer, he brings an end to the mass executions of civilian life in Calumet. He is an honorable soldier, who merely does his job.

He uses Darryl's fam to hunt the guerillas down as combat pragmatism, the most qualified method he can use to locate and destroy the heroes with least polite and cordial casualties. When Strelnikov speaks, he always wears a submachine gun on his hip and has the Jatimatic close to him always something that makes him different than the other soviet officers. Close to the end, Jed, a wolervine, gets the drop on the colonel by sneaking up behind him.

Jed says, "you lose", to him before he shoots and kills Colonel Strelnikov.