Assassination of Vasily Karpov

"What do you want?" "Mission report. December 16th, 1991." "Go to hell!"

- Vasily Karpov and Helmut Zemo

The Assassination of Vasily Karpov was an attempt by Helmut Zemo to receive information about the Winter Soldier Program from HYDRA member Vasily Karpov. The latter refused so Zemo left him to drown in his basement sink.

Creation of the Winter Soldiers
Succeeding in acquiring the Super Soldier Serum, Karpov oversaw the creation of the Winter Soldiers, an elite group of five HYDRA assassins infused with the serum. However, the Winter Soldiers, except for Barnes, lost control and started a riot, resulting in all of them being put under deep sleep in Cryostasis Chambers.

Questioned by Zemo
"Hail HYDRA."

- Vasily Karpov's last words

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 tap water to extract 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.