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

Are you alright?

I told you, the Crimean Beach Bombing and disrupting the Istanbul Accords. Can you read? It’s not that hard to know which two points I was referring too. All I said was that both of their crimes were identical save two of them that were hyper specific to Biden’s presidency.

Launching missiles at a civilian beach in Crimea, murdering and hospitalizing Russian civilians, including children.

Blocking the Istanbul peace agreement, which Ukraine was going to accept and would have prevented the conflict before it began.

Why the hell are you so tilted?

Mostly the specific crimes that happened during the Ukraine War, such as the beach bombing and Istanbul Accords. All the others could be easily applied to both Trump and Biden.

They would have acted identical to one another in each one of these points though. They are the two sides of the American State Department coin.

Trump did each and every one of the things you listed save maybe two.

Both of these pieces of shit are going to hell.

Ironically wearing a shirt like this is one of the most pro-America things someone can do if they truly believe in the whole First Amendment, freeze peach thing. So it kind of backfires on itself?

Still goes hard though, I need a shirt like that.

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He’s a disgusting war criminal. But he’s black, and speaks carefully, so to liberals it’s simply “Imperalism Lite edition”.

That’s why it’s Imperialism lite.

Do you really think Trump did less imperialism then Obama? Tightening the noose on Cuba, doing nearly triple the air strikes in half the time, killing Solemani, militarily antagonizing Iran in general to provoke a response, sending troops to directly occupy Syrian oil fields and hand them to Exxon Mobile, the list goes on.

Jesus Christ, they’re both pieces of shit, but one pile is still bigger. Do you think Trump was a better president and less imperialist?

Trump was and still is significantly more mask off then Obama ever was. Obama was the most lukewarm, optically inoffensive, status-quo supporting, capitalist neo-liberal to ever grace the presidency. Trump is substantially more honest in his convictions then anyone before him, for example somehow even managing to usurp Obama’s air strike grand-champion title in half the time.

Petoria shall rise again