Lev Ruka (1902-1942) was a Boscovian revolutionary, soldier, and founder of the terrorist group BRC-21 active in the Republic of Kresimiria. He began his military career as a Captain of the Boscovian Army, but in 1918, when the Vosti Empire collapsed, he had been on placement in Brod Moravice. He took up arms when Kresimirian soldiers attempted to enter the city, and fought with the Eastern Pravoslavic Confederacy. The Confederacy ultimately lost the war, but Ruka avoided death and capture when he fled to Boscovia just before the end of the war.
Kresimirian Unification War
Founding of BRC-21
An independent Republic of Kresimiria was declared in 1921 with the 1921 Kresimirian Constitution. Ruka, as an ethnic Boscovian and opposing soldier, was strongly against this. Despite having lost the war, Ruka found several like-minded ethnic Boscovians in the city of Brod Moravice after he smuggled himself back into the city across the Boscovian border in September 1921.
On the 19th of November 1921, Ruka proclaimed the founding of BRC-21 (Boscovian Revolutionary Council for 1921), to rival and mimick the Revolutionary People’s Council, the body of Kresimirians who had just created the new Republic.
Assassination
Ruka was killed in 1942 by a Kresimirian internal security operation, and was succeeded by his deputy Neda Orlak.