Well nobody is going to argue the for the merits of Stalinism on this forum the problem with the CoH campaign is not that it criticised the Soviet Union, but the stupid way in which it did it. Basically the game was about a Soviet soldier who at every turn questioned the war, who was disillusioned with it. This works for a Vietnam flick maybe, where the war is a war of aggression fought for dubious goals, but in the case of the Soviet-German war, which was essentially defensive as well as a war for utter survival, this kind of narrative seems out of place. The game shows how the soldiers and civilian population are callously sacrificed, but, regardless of if this is based on historical fact or not, one has to ask wether they would have fared any better under German occupation.
This.
Although a film or a game might not be 100% historically accurate (I mean, CoH 1 wasn't historically accurate either, and even FH2 - which as you might know strives for historical accuracy - has some historical mistakes), that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy watching or playing it. I simply enjoy playing CoH2 as sometimes I just want to kill lots of Germans
Thanks for posting the YT link Hauggy, I had fun with the first few minutes, will finish it later. And although I don't think Mudzin is free of bias, he is right when he points out that this Russian guy is biased too, of course.
Funny, now that I think of it: almost every time someone accuses someone or something else from being biased, that person himself is biaed too (in this case: Relic - Russian guy - Mudzin - me, although I am not actually accusing here).
Oh the lack of any actual knowledge here is amusing. There are several reasons for the German defeat at Moscow 1941:
- Bad German preparations for winter conditions and the mud season
- High German losses in the summer battles after the invasion: Most of the divisions involved were down to skeleton crews, whole regiments sometimes the size of reinforced companies.
- Russian railroads had a different size than German ones, meaning the Germans had to rely on the road network to get supplies to the front. The mud season, lacking motorization and beginning partisan interference made this almost impossible.
- The German army was overstretched due to the gigantic length of the frontline, making it hard to concentrate strong forces for an offensive.
- The non-aggression pact with Japan allowed the Russians to shift several elite Siberian divisions to the European front, reinforcing the Moscow sector and forcing back the Germans. These divisions were also well equipped to fight in winter.
So stop talking about stuff you don't know about and go back to posting game screenshots.
And weren't some Panzer units being sent southwards because they were needed there more pressingly according to Hitler?