And in the world of PC games at least, what better form should that input take than an extremely promising RTS full of historical veracity and gameplay swagger? So in deciding on how the story of the most momentous war ever is remembered, it’s only right that our former Soviet cousins have some serious input.
By the time we hit the Normandy beaches in 1944, the Red Army was already kicking the door down on the Reich, and the burning issue was not 'can we take Germany and stop the Nazis?', but rather 'can we stop the Communists from taking Germany?' While obsessing about the heroic role the UK played in defeating Hitler, we tend to overlook the fact that the ones who did the most to thwart the Nazi juggernaut, like it or not, were the Russians.
