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Rudion Richards was born in the USSR to an American father and a Russian mother. A gifted student, he had to work to overcome many political hurdles as both his parents were considered dissidents in Soviet society, his father being an expatriate American and his mother being a peasant girl (peasant women having been associated with nymphish behavior in Stalinist society. Following the gain of his superpowers along with his teammates that made him a celebrity, he was granted access to classified information finding out what became of his parents. They were sent to a gulag, where his mother died but his father was still alive. Richards was allowed to visit his father. As part of a goodwill effort among Stalin's successor and President Eisenhower, Kruschev freed the elder Richards from the gulag and deported him to his native country of the United States. Rudion Richards, however, elected to remain in Russia.

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Rudion Richards can open up discontinuities in his own body projecting part of it over great distances by means of small ruptures in the fabric of space.

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