Dimitri Petrenko

**Dimitri Petrenko** (Russian: **Дмитрий Петренко**) (1 August 1923- 29 October 1945) was a Soviet soldier assigned to the 150th Rifle Division of the 3rd Shock Army during World War II and was the friend and subordinate of Viktor Reznov. After the war, Dimitri worked with Reznov on finding the Nazi scientist, Friedrich Steiner, and was killed by his gas by the traitorous Nikita Dragovich. Dimitri's death deeply affected Reznov and would lead him on the path on getting his revenge on Dragovich, Lev Kravchenko and Steiner by using his ally CIA operative Alex Mason to kill them.

## Biography

### Early Life

Dimitri Antonovich Petrenko was born on 1 August 1923 in Mikhaylovka, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He learned how to shoot from his father, who served in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I and then the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. When Operation Barbarossa began, his father was killed fighting the advancing Wehrmacht in 1941. As a result, Petrenko made his way to Moscow to join the Red Army in August 1941.

## The Siege of Stalingrad

Petrenko was quickly trained and sent to city of Stalingrad, where he crossed the Volga with the 62nd Rifle Division on 17 September 1942 and was caught at the massacre in the square, hiding in the fountain. He feigned death as the Heer shot anything that moved in the fountain, meeting Sergeant Viktor Reznov here. As his finger was blown off during the massacre, he was forced to hand his Mosin-Nagant rifle to Petrenko. Reznov explained to him that he had been hunting Lieutenant General Heinrich Amsel for three days and needed Petrenko's help. Dimitri and Reznov journey through the area and manage to kill a Nazi sniper from across a building. Afterward, Dimitri and Reznov meet up with Soviet soldiers including Sergeant Joseph Daletski, and provide sniper support when the others ambush the Nazis. After giving support, Reznov and Dimtri move to assassinate Amsel, who is attempting to escape from the area. Dimtri succeeds in killing the general, and Reznov congratulates him on his marksmanship. The two are attacked by a squad of Nazi soldiers, who storm the building to kill them. Dimtri and Reznov escape from the building, jumping into the river upon escaping form the Wehrmacht soldiers.

## The Battle of Seelow Heights

Three years after Stalingrad, Petrenko was promoted to the rank of Corporal after killing Amsel, but he and Rezonv didn't see each other again till the Battle of Seelow Heights when Pentrenko was captured and taken into a house by three Nazi soldiers. While the soldiers are conversing and searching Dimitri's fallen comrades, Petrenko attempts to reach for a rifle before attacked by a Nazi soldier. Before they execute him, a T-34 tank blows a hole into the rifle, and Reznov reunite with Dimitri. Petrenko also meets private Chernov, a new member of the army, who shows himself to be merciful against Reznov's brutal personality. After fighting against Nazi soldiers and German tanks, the group go on pushing into 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 men survived.

## To the Reichstag

After recovering, Reznov, Dimitri, and Chernov 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.

## After the Reichstag

After the Reichstag, Dimitri was transported to a med station and feel in love with a Red Army nurse and the two have a child. He was also hailed a hero by the Soviet Union for defeating the Nazis, and was titled the "Hero of Berlin". but this was short life as Dimitri was Sergeant is appointed as Reznov executive officer and it was assigned to the Soviet Occupation Forces in Berlin and was later assigned to "Unit 45" with Reznov, who was promoted to captain. On October 29, 1945, the unit was under the command of General Nikita Dragovich, who Reznov tells his men not to trust since he left his men die at the Red Square massacre. Dragovich and his right hand, Lev Kravchenko, order the unit to capture Nazi scientist Friedrich Steiner and secure a shipment of a toxic nerve gas called Nova 6.

## Betrayal

As the men secure Steiner, who takes them to the ship and speaks of how he created the nova gas. Wanting to see the gas' effect, Dragovich and Kravchenko betrayed Dmitri and his men, and used them as test subjects. Dimitri and a couple of men died a slow painful death from the gas, as Reznov saw his death.

## 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 thanks Reznov, he reprogrammed him to kill Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner instead. After Mason's escape from Vorkuta during the second Uprising of the prison, 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 CIA Agent Frank Woods, finally avenging Dimitri. Pentrenko was survived by his girlfriend, child and grandchildren who served in the Loyalist under command of Sergeant Mikhail Kamarov.