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That there aren't any pro-nazi games released today in "the west" is just a sign that the Germans and whatnot need to get the fuck over something that happened two and a half generations ago. Yet every year a new game such as Call of Duty or Brothers in Arms, just to name a few, comes out and what do we find? Eeeeeevil Nazi Scum being gunned down by the dozen by invulnerable American heroes. (And sometimes British, sometimes Russian, but the main game is with the Americans, always.)
Do we see any guilting over the nukes, or the firebombings of axis cities? Hell no. Hitler's little project with the jews, gypsies and other people-he-didn't-like-of-the-day though? I dare you to make a comment that does not toe the line that the allies laid out after the German defeat in the mass media and weather the shitstorm that angry protests and jewish public relations organizations are sure to kick up. That is, if you don't get sent to a smelly Austrian slammer for expressing modern-day heresy.
Well, maybe I'm just sensitive to this sort of shit. The average yank would have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about, after all. What they heard from their WW2 veteran grampas was all the cool shit they got to do, dropping bombs and killing krauts and all that which is seen glorified in modern film. Even the British got a taste of why war is such total, horrible bullshit during the Germans' air raids. Compare America to the axis countries (by a broad interpretation), though...
My father was in Helsinki with his father and his brother when the Soviets were bombing it during either the winter war or the continuation war. He and a few of his young buddies went to see a crater the size of quarter a city block on the side of a hillock in the central park after a particularly intense night, and what do they find? A shred of the bomb's metallic outer shell embedded in a tree trunk on which the latin letters "U.S" were still legible. That's right, the U.S. of America donated supplies for the Soviet war effort, among them huge fucking bombs, and the Soviets gleefully dropped them on populated areas with next to minimal military presence. Way to go. Way to fucking go.
Now imagine what the Germans and the Japanese, both victims of extensive firebombings, even nuking, of civilian areas, went through. But I'm just beating my head into a wall, aren't I? The "WE CAN DO NO WRONG, WE SOAR LIKE AN EAGLE" mentality keeps your little patriotic American heads safe from vile propaganda such as this. Maybe one day you'll get it into your brains that your country visits all the horrors of war, every last one of them including the ones you don't know about and the ones you hope and wish existed only in your worst nightmares, upon every last goddamn state that you have ever decided to, or have yet to invade. "Shock and awe", "enduring freedom", "infinite justice". Yeah, right.