Vasily Karpov

"Hail HYDRA!"

- Vasily Karpov to Helmut Zemo

Colonel Vasily Karpov was a HYDRA officer infiltrated in the Russian Armed Forces, responsible for the Winter Soldier Program. Decades later, he was found by Helmut Zemo, who demanded to know about his work; when Karpov refused to give him answers, Zemo allowed him to drown.

Biography
In 1991, Colonel Karpov revived Sergeant Bucky Barnes from a cryogenic sleep at the HYDRA Siberian Facility and activated Barnes using a set of conditioned trigger words. Barnes was then dispatched to intercept an automobile carrying a case of Super Soldier Serum, and assassinate its occupants.

Twenty-five years later, the former Sokovian special forces Colonel Helmut Zemo arrived at Karpov's house in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States of America. There, Zemo partially submerged Karpov's head in a sink filling with tapwater to torture the 1991 mission report from him. However, Karpov refused to talk, so Zemo took the book with the trigger words to operate Barnes and abandoned him. Heavily restrained and unable to lift his head from the water, Karpov spoke the HYDRA oath before drowning in the overflowing sink.

Allies

 * HYDRA
 * Arnim Zola †
 * Winter Soldier
 * Winter Soldiers - Allies turned Enemies
 * Josef †

Enemies

 * Helmut Zemo - Killer

Trivia

 * In the comics, Vasily Karpov is a ruthless but efficient Soviet officer that was involved in a joint operation with Captain America and the Invaders during World War II, in which he helped foil a plot of Red Skull and Master Man. He was also partly reponsible for the creation of the Winter Soldier