Hopefully, but that’s the dry cargo ship Alan Shepard which isn’t armed with offensive weapons systems beyond four pintle mounted 50cals for repelling boarding and disposable Nulka decoy launchers.

True, but there isn’t much of a society left. Productive forces don’t really exist beyond artisanal and sustenance production, and neither does organized or capitalist modes of production. There isn’t anything to really organize, let alone lead.

They live in commune societies where the collective own the means of production, reject money, they attempt to elevate tribal groups through education, they’re anti-fascist and only maintain a tenuous relationship with the liberal NCR, and attempt to recruit through their outreach.

Society tetters between tribal and early feudal at best, and even then barely. What is a socialist to do in a “society” like that? Volunteer outreach is all that’s left, not like there’s much to do a “revolution” against.

The Followers of the Apocalypse in New Vegas and 2 are essentially communist and presented in a good light.

Tim Cain stopped contributing to the story after the first game so a lot of what he says about the franchise can be taken with a grain of salt.

Hollywood writers are unionized and overwhelmingly left wing. Whenever they’re left to their own devices they always create works that express left wing thought, such as what happened with Andor recently.

Whether that expression of leftist thought is placatory is another argument altogether, but the people making the art are absolutely all socialists or syndicalists at the least.

Yes. When Christ died he traveled to hell and raises all he souls trapped there. Implying he had a plan before dying.

Replayed two flash games from my childhood that held up incredibly well. First was Battle of Britain 303 Squadron, and the second 1066. Would recommend if you have 15 minutes to spare!

Genuinely… isn’t this essentially what Lenin did?

Catching a scapegoat would be the single most self-humiliating thing the police could do. First they let a member of the bourgeois get killed, and then all they can do is catch an innocent person? There is no way that wouldn’t blow up in the system’s face in utterly comical proportions.

Other capitalists would be livid.

68% of the worlds uranium is mined in Khazahstan, Canada, and Australia. Uranium isn’t a primary export of any African market for the exception of French colonial states shipping to France, who demands those exports because it’s cheaper due to political influence.

A better translation would probably be:

“Monarchist Gentlemen! Asses for inspection!”

China and Vietnam still has a VAT tax system based off of the Soviet system as well

True, but that’s not displayed as inherent to the Soviets or even unreasonable to a degree. The German brutality is talked about and displayed frequently, and the actions of the Soviets are displayed as a righteous anger in response to an invasion and suffering at the hands of an incredibly evil enemy. War is hell, and I feel that the game demonstrated the brutality of the conflict well. The US and Japan also shown engaging in that same brutality in the Pacific Campaign, so its not something unique to the Soviet missions.

Even then, moments like the one you talk about are rare, and preceded by a lot of context. For example, the scene where the group of SS soldiers attempt to surrender and you have the option to burn or shoot them, comes directly after an entire mission of that SS unit fighting savagely and repeatedly killing captured or surrendered Soviet troops, and then only surrendering because they attempted to escape into the metro system but were cut off and surrounded.

Or even the scene at the beginning of “Their land, their blood”, where Rheznov gives you the option of shooting the Germans bleeding out on the floor, comes after those same Germans beat you, a captured soldier, senseless, and were preparing to execute you. Which they were only prevented in doing because of the Red Army’s arrival.

To answer your question, Call of Duty 2 is alright. You’ll run into some tropes here or there, but nothing egregious. Mainly stuff along the lines of your officer giving you potatoes to use for throwing practice instead of training grenades. The game is a simple, fun, arcade shooter.

Call of Duty 1 is much much worse and I would stay away from it, mainly because its very unpolished and not fun.

The USSR did not actually kill retreating men in the field. Blocking detachments were mainly made up of the worst soldiers in a unit and were primarily used to round up malingerers and send them back to the front. There were also roughly 100-250 men in each blocking detachment, and each group was expected to enforce no-retreat orders on a regiment of roughly 40,000-50,000 men. The primary politcal goal of blocking detachments was to persuade officers from ordering panicked retreats in order to prevent the front line from collapsing. If individual units needed to fall back, they would be allowed to.

If a solider was suspected of serious desertion, they would be arrested and tried under court martial, not shot on the spot.

The only caveat to this is that Penal troops were followed by armed NKVD officers which would kill them on the spot for attempting to either surrender to the Germans, or escape from captivity.

Early in the war, Germany overran many Soviet divisions and their armament stockpiles leaving many troops without ammunition and oftentimes even rifles. This led to many Soviet divisions that survived the initial invasion being woefully under-equipped and significantly weaker then they appeared on paper; which in turn, led to further military disasters, notably around Minsk and Kiev.

However, by the start of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, these logistical failures had been fixed for months and no longer plagued Soviet front line units. In fact, the Southern front had an overabundance of weapons and ammunition, and a severe lack of manpower due to the fighting around Leningrad and Moscow sucking up all available reserves.

What you are looking for is Call of Duty: World at War. You have two campaigns, one being American and focused on the Pacific, and the second being Soviet and focused on the Eastern Front.

From what I remember, there is very little, if any, historical revisionism or state department propaganda, so you won’t run into something along the lines of the Soviets randomly committing war crimes to show how “barbaric” they are or other garbage similar to that. The American campaign also doesn’t just hype America up to be this unstoppable war machine that was single-handedly responsible for winning WW2.

Every so often I’ll go back and replay the game due to how incredibly cathartic they make mowing down droves of Nazis. Storming the Reichstag is definitely my favorite part by far from both campaigns. Just watching the Nazi Eagle get hit with a rocket before tumbling down from the rafters and crushing the SS men taking cover behind Hitler’s podium is amazing. Not to mention the ending scene itself.

The automation is because it’s always been a felony not to register, same as it is in virtually every country with mandatory service, so to avoid the horrifically needless societal effects that come from giving someone a felony for a random crime, they simply automated it.

Basically what they did with social security years ago. Used to also be a crime to not sign up by a certain age, so they just started immediately registering all children at birth.

I really loved the Professor Layton series. They were technically very impressive for the limited hardware of the DS. Fully voiced and animated cutscenes, with a deep and immersive story, loaded to the brim with interesting mini games and side games so fleshed out they could be their own standalone titles.

I also loved Steel Diver, never been able to find anything like it!

Poor Kevin : (

He just loved sharing his cooking