Piotr Soprunenko
Soviet Major-General / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piotr Karpovich Soprunenko (17 March 1908 ā 23 June 1992) was a Soviet Major-General in the Red Army who carried out the Katyn Massacre in World War II. Soprunenko had 22,000 prisoners of war under his jurisdiction as head of a branch of the Soviet NKVD called the "Department for POW Affairs" that was created by Lavrenty Beria.[1][2] He was of Ukrainian ancestry.