Russian's certainly left-wing with wicked alter ego (9)

Independent Cryptic #12171 | 9 Across | 2025-10-11
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

DA (Russian for yes or ‘certainly’) RED (left wing) EVIL (wicked). The definition must be ‘alter ego’ but we cannot find anywhere that describes these as synonyms. Can anyone help please?

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