

He then blows up Vinnie with his "Trojan Horse" - a giant Captain BaseBallBat-Boycostume with a bomb in it, thus ending the two men's rivalry. When Vlad captures both Max and Vinnie at Mona's hideout, he shoots Max in the head for the "insults done to his lady " aka Max killed Winterson. She is in love with him, attracted by him due to his his attention to her and her blind son. The cleaning company commandos were his men. That is why he is in an arm sling when Max saves him at Vodka. Mona Sax is the one who shoots Vlad in the arm during one of their run-ins. This conversation secretly helped in clearing things up between them, with Max unknowingly giving Vlad his "blessing" to go forth with his desire to kill Max, a fact Max later put together. During the drive, Vlad and Max spoke to each other about fate and the difficult choices they will have to make. However, he held enough respect for Max Payne he decided to personally meet up with Max Payne and offered him a lift to Coney Island. Moreover, Vlad decides to rid himself of Max Payne by placing a hit on him. But Vlad soon becomes greedy and decides to wipe out the entire mob completely. In 2003, the war has heated up some, but thanks to Max's help, the Russians were able to hit back at the Mafia harder than ever, leaving Vlad a very successful man, wearing expensive suits and buying Lupino's Ragna Rock nightclub after his death, turning it into a classy restaurant "Vodka". Max complies and, following with Vlad's apparent code of ethics, he allows Max to use some of his heavy weaponry and promises to help whenever he wants. After hearing about him killing so many mobsters, Vlad arrives back at Jack Lupino's hotel to give Max a lift, to propose a truce and to make him "an offer he couldn't refuse:" Sending Max to kill one of his former lieutenants, Boris Dime, who has crossed over to Punchinello's side and take back the cargo of a ship Dime is in. In 2001, Vladimir Lem is first seen driving away from Jack Lupino's bombed out apartment building, after setting a powerful bomb near the place inside a parked car, thus continuing the gang war between the Russian and Italian mobs. Vlad was also the protégé of Alfred Woden, the central member of the Inner Circle. Vlad, however, was not the instigator of this war as according to a letter written by Vinnie Gognitti, the mob had made a hit on his weapons shipments which was believed to have left the Russians too weak to fight back.Ī side-conflict in the war was the rivalry between Lem and Gognitti The two hated and wanted to kill each other. Vlad re-started a brutal and bloody mob war with Punchinello family. The Mob's main enemies were the Punchinello mob family. In New York City, Vlad started his own Russian Mob. He became a weapons dealer sometime after. At some point in his life, Vlad was exposed to the world of drugs and gangs. It is unknown if he was born in Russia or the USA.
