Sgt. Yushin (Voyo Goric) in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Sgt. Yushin was Podovsky's primary henchman who serves as the tertiary antagonist of Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Yushin is the first "big Russian" of the Rambo movies, next to Kourov in Rambo III. Both Yushin and Kourov have no dialogue and appear to be used more for their strength than their intelligence.
Yushin is silent in the film, but in the novelization, "Yashin" has quite a bit of dialogue and a few chapters are even told from his perspective, giving insight to his thoughts and emotions.
Although he doesn't utter a line in English in the movie, Yushin is a very brutal, submissive and strong man who doesn't necessarily like to torture people, but he has a morbid curiosity about it and does whatever Podovsky tells him to do. He is first seen helping Podovsky torture John Rambo into calling Marshall Murdock about not sending further rescue missions. Yushin does this by electrifying Rambo on an improvised electrocution device made up of a metal bedspring mattress.
When this fails, Yushin pulls Rambo's own knife from a fire and drags the heated blade along his cheek, cutting the skin and instantly cauterizing the wound. Rambo only agrees to comply to Podovsky's demands when Yushin attempts to put the heated blade into another POW's eyeball. While on the radio, instead of ordering no further rescue missions, Rambo threatens Murdock and then fights his way out of the prison camp, throwing Yushin onto the electrical device in the process.
Rambo gets the drop on Yushin moments before his demise.
Later on in the film, Rambo boards a Russian helicopter and Yushin tries to fight Rambo off in an intense hand-to-hand fight sequence (similar to olympic-style Greco-Roman wrestling). However, Rambo manages to get the upper hand by pushing Yushin out the helicopter. Yushin plummets to his death from a great height. In the novelization, Rambo kills him by blasting him out of the helicopter with its minigun.
Trivia
Yushin in the game.
He shares many similarities to deputy Art Galt from First Blood; Both torture Rambo, and both are killed when they fall from a helicopter.
Sgt. Yushin was the only Soviet in the Rambo films to be portrayed by an actual Slavic actor. Voyo Goric, who portrayed Yushin, was actually a Yugoslavian, which was a communist but neutral country during the Cold War. The other Soviet actors were played by non-Slavs: Kourov was portrayed by an American named Randy Raney, Podovsky was portrayed by a British actor named Steven Berkoff (a British man of Jewish descent), and Colonel Zaysen was portrayed by a French actor named Marc de Jonge.
