Aww yes, I remember that map.. that was really, the greatest moment of the game.. After all those years of killing germans just because the plots needed me to.. AT LAST I could mow down every single allie I could target... I think I replayed that map 3.. maybe 4 times.
Anyhow, I really support the idea of playing on the other side.. as the "bad guys".. even if it was something strategic.. especially if it was a bit strategic.. Believe me, I could come up with a few plotlines as we speak ^^
// Please, take your time to read this :)
You see children, everything, and I mean everything, depends on the point of view. Just because your country chose to support the CCCR, it doesn't mean that they didn't kill millions of innocent people. You see, the Russian ideology was too, kind of racist, communism's first principle is, that everyone be equal. And for that you needed to get rid of the people who were different than others. In my country.. and I recall that it was done in all countries, EVERYONE richer than others was loaded into cargo trains and deported to Northern-Siberia. That means if you had a farm slightly bigger that the other guy, 2-3 more cows than your neighbour, you were simply removed from your home with the rest of your family. You see, there were no railways further in Siberia, so people were taken off the trains and forced to travel hundreds of kilometers in harsh Russian winter (-30/-40 degrees Celsius) to get to their camps. They knew no russian, they were freezing their asses off and they had to work around 10 hours a day chopping wood. Sometimes there was food, sometimes not.. The food was usually hot water with a bit of salt in it, and if you were lucky, a chunk of meat. most of them (~75%) died, including ~95% of the children.
You see, when I was young, my grandmother used to tell me about the horrors of war-time. They got out of it quite nicely, because they were poor and lived in the countryside, so there wasn't any point in bombing them. They used to get a few occasional guests, starving German troopers or starving Russian soldiers. She always told me (I guess it's because she remembered it best and because she knew from the horrors done to her family and their neighbours and friends) what the difference was between the Russians and Germans. German soldiers came - they didn't know the language ofcorse, but someone in the family knew german - and asked for whatever they wanted. Yes, ASKED is the word. And they payed for what they got. Russians on the other hand.. yes, you guessed it right, came and took whatever they wanted, all the money, slaughtered most of the animals, took vegetables from the ground... What they didn't need they simply broke or burnt or did whatever they liked with it. And oh dear, when you happened to be in their way.. they would rape you, push you into the mud, slice you with their knives, or if you were lucky, simply shoot you.
Now i'm NOT saying the germans didn't kill, rape, execute and starve innocent people, but still... be reasonable... Do you know what the russians did in Ukraine? Ukraine, the unlucky country had very good soil. So the russians, as always, destroyed it. They grew potatoes and wheat all over the country, and expected to get the highest possible ofcourse. The russians had collected over 40 million tons of harvest in the past 2 years.. and had drained the land. So the ukrainians starved. For 2 years. It is estimated that up to 20 million people starved to death because of the russians' stupidity..
Do you recall anything like this happening in German provinces? The total number of the victims of the holocaust is estimated to be around 11 million (including the gays, disabled, communists, war-prisoners and slavic people killed).Isn't it kind of wierd that the holocaust is considered "The worst thing to happen in the 20'th century"? I mean, I wouldn't expect that the russians were smart enough to plan the Holodomor (Ukrainian starvation) but still, they died because of the russian's stupidity.. don't you think?
To those of you who think this was irrelevant, you can't have a discussion about a WW2 game without discussing this.
To those of you who think i'm a nazi supporter, I say that I don't like what they did, but i HATE what communists did.
And yes, english isn't my native tongue. And no, I am not ukrainian.
And thank you in advance for quoting me a hundred times and calling me an idiot, a child, a nazi and whatever else you can think of, I'll look forward to seeing you discussing.
