k3v1n said:
as much as I agree with you, in most games you can play as a Soviet and, actually, Stalin was on par with Hitler in being a Tyranical bastard who also killed(probably killed more than Hitler to be precise)
Yes, but Soviet Russia doesn't have the same emotional impact as Nazi Germany-- Stalin may have killed millions of people but it was because he had issues with political dissidents, for the most part anyway. He's not known for having creating an entire section of government to deal with the bureaucracy of
ethnic cleansing. There's a difference between a tyrant killing people because he's a crazy bastard and a government setting up an efficient method of killing particular members of society due to their ethnic, religious or social background-- and, unsurprisingly, therefore, there's a difference in how we remember those regimes.
Ygfi said:
something to add, morst likely repeating something.
almost no one actually knew what was going on in germany (camps)
there was the whole propaganda machine and stuff, not to mention most soldiers arn't at home, there at WAR.
the soldiers stood for germany, not the NAZIs. do you americans, stand for america, or do you stand for guantanimo bay? (don't deny it)
if your not american, you should know better anyway.
I would argue that, yes you can say that American soldiers are supporting and defending a regime that has committed war crimes and thus they are, in a sense, the bad guys of the scenario. I'd like to point out, however, that the Holocaust is kind of another order of magnitude from Gitmo. Holding people without is trial and torturing them is barbaric, but it's not exactly KILLING ALL THE JEWS.
Also, I would like to point people who think that regular Germans weren't culpable to The Night of The Long Knives and the serious anti-Semitism going on in Germany at the time.
