• 陈卫华是我的英雄
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    132 years ago

    Soviet tanks like the KV-2 and IS-2 were far more advanced than their German counterparts. In the earlier stages of Operation Barbarossa, a single KV-2 managed to hold off the entirety of the 6th Panzer Division during the Battle of Raseiniai (Google the wikipedia page for the battle, its confirmed by German sources). Furthermore, Soviet engineers managed to combine the best parts of several types of tanks (wide tracks, large barrel, sloped armor, etc.) into the T-34, the most mass-produced tank of WW2. To top it all off, the often talked about American donations made up only 4% of the Red Army’s total equipment, which does say something…

    • KiG V2
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      92 years ago

      Didn’t know the Lend Lease was so small, guess that’s the nail in the coffin to the “America beat the Nazis” argument.

      KV2s are so badass. I call em fatheads.

  • KiG V2
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    122 years ago

    I love COH2 but honestly I’ve been getting pissed at it.

    Like, they portray the Nazis very neutrally. They’re not throwing the Holocaust or fascist values around. The factions are stripped of the ideology that made the backbone of them and their explicitly genocidal intentions with the Slavs to the East, the explicitly genocidal front of the war that makes this whole game.

    Yet with the Soviets it feels like they’re playing a game of, “Yeah yeah we wanted to make an Eastern Front COH game but, like, no worries, we still know Stalin was just as bad as Hitler,” with the whole storyline of the main character being against human wave tactics, the evil commissars, the gulag at the end and how the protagonist couldn’t be a good guy without deciding the communists were bad too. Not to mention random quips in the otherwise awesome voice acting (heard some random conscript talk about how he’s jealous of Americans and their TVs once, like why is this necessary).

    Nazis being portrayed as badass is cool and neutral but Soviets being portrayed as badass needs a big fat asterisk saying “btw we totally don’t actually cosign these guys!”