Dimitri Petrenko

Sergeant Dimitri Petrenko (Russian: Дмитрий Петренко) was a Soviet soldier assigned to the 150th Rifle Division of the 3rd Shock Army during World War II. He is one of the three playable characters of Call of Duty: World at War as the player controls him through the Russian campaign and makes an NPC appearance in Call of Duty: Black Ops in "Project Nova", a flashback mission.
==Biography==
===Red Square Massacre===
Dimitri is first seen in the level, "Vendetta" among the many wounded and dead Red Army soldiers in a fountain at Red Square and goes unnoticed by playing dead. While trying to leave unnoticed, he comes across Sergeant Reznov who also survived the massacre. Petrenko is ordered to take Reznov's Scoped Mosin-Nagant because Reznov could not shoot due to a hand injury. Dimitri sniped the German sentries under the cover of a bombing raid, narrowly killing their attack dog in the process and leaves with Reznov before an armored patrol spots them. After eliminating a German sniper, Dimitri and Reznov are discovered by the Germans and narrowly escaped from being burned alive in the building that they are hiding in. Just when they are about to be killed, they are saved by the elements of the Red Army and provided sniper support for the attacking Russians and moved to assassinate Heinrich Amsel who was the German officer that was responsible for the massacre at the square.
Reznov congratulates Dimitri on his marksmanship only to be attacked by a squad of German soldiers who stormed the building that they are in. Dimitri jumps into the river below after Reznov to escape from the Wehrmacht soldiers.
===Capture===
Three years later in the German countryside, Dimitri is captured and taken into a house by the three German soldiers. While the Germans were conversing and searching Dimitri's dead comrades, Dimitri tries to reach for a fallen comrade's Mosin-Nagant only to be kicked and punched in the face by a German soldier. Before they can execute him, however, a T-34 Tank blows a hole in a wall, injuring two of the three German soldiers.
Reznov gunned the last German soldier down and orders Chernov, a new recruit to execute the remaining German soldiers. When Chernov refuses since they were already bleeding to death, Petrenko has the option of executing his dying captors himself as he and Reznov have no pity for Wehrmacht soldiers after the atrocities that they witnessed in Stalingrad. After executing or leaving the wounded Germans to die, Petrenko joins Reznov for the first time in three years in the final push to Berlin.
===Push into Berlin===
Upon their reunion, Reznov speaks a lot of Dimitri and often tells the other soldiers to follow him as an example, especially to Chernov who seems to be shocked by the vengeful violence of his comrades against the Wehrmacht soldiers. After blowing the German Panzer Tanks, King Tigers and German forces up that are guarding the last defensive line that was protecting Berlin in a T-34, Petrenko and Reznov joined the numerous Russian forces in clearing Berlin. During a skirmish in a Berlin subway, the tunnel that Petrenko, Reznov and Chernov are in is flooded by water, although the three miraculously survived.
===The Reichstag===
After recovering, Dimitri participates in storming the Reichstag, the seat of the German Parliament and final Nazi stronghold. However, at the entrance of the Reichstag, Chernov is incinerated by a flamethrower and falls to the ground coughing and writhing in pain, Reznov takes pity on him and takes his diary and reads it. Chernov's death forces another soldier to carry the flag, although he is killed as well during the final stages of the battle, forcing Dimitri to plant the Soviet flag.
However, when trying to raise the Soviet flag, a dying Schutzstaffel Trooper severely wounds Petrenko by shooting a near-fatal shot at him with a P-38. As the lone German collapses, Reznov charges forward with a machete and repeatedly stabs and slashes the German to death and throws his body from the Reichstag. Reznov cut the flag down and tells Dimitri that the honor is his. Dimitri raises the Soviet flag over the Reichstag as cries of "Ura!" are heard from the victorious Russians.
===Post-War and Operation Olympus===
Two months later, Dimitri still managed to fully recover from his wounds during the Battle of the Reichstag and was promoted to sergeant. During July and August, Petrenko was assigned to the Soviet Occupation Forces in Berlin. In Reznov's flashback level, "Project Nova", sometime in October, Reznov and Petrenko were both assigned to "Unit 45," a Soviet special projects team under the command of General Nikita Dragovich.
Under Dragovich and Kravchenko's orders, Dimitri and Reznov were dispatched to capture a Nazi scientist named Steiner and secure a shipment of Nova 6, an extremely toxic nerve gas from the last remaining Nazi base in the Arctic Circle. After Steiner was captured, he was brought back to Dragovich and Kravchenko to give them the location of the Nova 6 weapon.
===Death===
While they were successful to this end, Dragovich and Kravchenko betrayed Dimitri by using him and the other two men as test subjects for the gas. Dimitri died a slow and painful death from the Nova 6 gas before Reznov's eyes on October 29, 1945, at the young age of 22. Reznov, who was narrowly spared thanks to the British invading the ship to obtain the same weapon, sunk the ship to ensure neither side could possess the weapon, but Dimitri's body was never recovered and was lost at sea.
===Legacy===
After being imprisoned in Vorkuta for destroying Nova 6, Reznov vowed to kill Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner in order to avenge Dimitri and stop them recreating Nova 6. 18 years later Reznov befriended fellow inmate Alex Mason, who'd been brainwashed to kill John F. Kennedy, but Reznov reprogrammed him to kill Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner instead. After Mason's escape from Vorkuta, which resulted in Reznov's death too, he pursued his targets and by 1968 successfully killed Dragovich and Steiner. Kravchenko however survived until 1986 where he was killed by Mason or Woods (player-determined), finally avenging Dimitri. 
==Gallery==
Dimitri Petrenko dossier image BO.png|Dimitri's CIA dossier picture
Dimitri Petrenko in Project Nova 2 BO.jpg|Petrenko in "Project Nova"
Dimitri's Death Project Nova BO.png|Dimitri dying of Nova Gas exposure
Petrenko Nova 6 Effects BO.png|Dimitri is infected by Nova 6.
Petrenko dying Project Nova BO.png|Dimitri feels the effects of Nova 6.
Dimitri Petrenko's corpse Project Nova BO.png|Dimitri's corpse
==Video==
Call of Duty Black Ops- Dimitri Petrenko's Death
==Trivia==
*In the Wii version of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dimitri's death is less detailed since the Wii lacks the graphical capabilities for the scene.
==Notes==
ru:Дмитрий Петренко
fr:Dimitri Petrenko
sv:Dimitri Petrenko
pl:Dmitrij Petrenko
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops Red Army Characters
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