I understand the need to strike a delicate balance between maintaining historical accuracy and being sensitive to modern sensibilities and legal requirements.
While the game features vehicles and weapons from various nations, including those from the Axis and Allied sides, it strives to avoid glorifying any specific ideology or political figure. This approach aligns with European laws and broader international standards that prohibit the promotion of hate speech or extremist symbols. I agree with this stance, as it’s impossible to appease everyone; someone will always find something hurtful in the game. However, it remains politically correct in the eyes of the law.
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This is the issue and Gaijin have to appease every country across the globe.We simply don’t have the Neo Nazi movement in the UK so we sometimes wonder why Americans get so upset about a defunct old German party.We also don’t have the Laws they have in Austria,Germany and Poland and neither does the US,So Americans may wonder what all the fuss is about there.
Gaijin have to skip around all this.There biggest trend in Europe right now is screaming Nazi at everything. Gaijin feature avatars of nameless Axis pilots and tankers and that is about all they can get away with.
Ask Hitler. No he planned it over the 30s.
i’m guessing you didn’t read the rest of that statement
"When you examine history, it’s clear that more than one nation is involved. No single person wakes up one morning and decides to attack another country.
There is always a buildup of events leading up to such actions."
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I did read it.
Are you justifying the need of an Imperialist nation to invade other countries and take them over, starting with the Czech “carrot top” of Sudetenland?
Germany did not invade/enact Lebensraum due to others “starting it”.
Germany started and planned what became WWII. Stalin was a murderous nutter too but did not start WWII (Poland just got double teamed).
Edit: this has all been replied to, like it or not, in two other similar topics.
I believe that history exists for a reason: to learn from it and not to conceal the truth of what happened.
We should either treat everyone equally without discrimination, regardless of past events, or not apply double standards at all.
Double standards are frustrating in politics especially
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I don’t see the issue with some highlights of Axis soldiers, pilots, sailors, etc that achieved accolades. There really weren’t whole countries of them, especially famous/infamous, committing various atrocities.
The Red Army themselves also committed atrocities to the Fins, the Poles, the Germans and so on - Yet they see ample representation in the game regardless. The fact that people gloss over such glaring hypocrisy is disgraceful imho.
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Britain declared war on Germany and made it a wider issue. Europe has always been at war but we dont stick our noses into all of them.The war between Japan and the USA was brewing since the turn of the century and the US were asking for UK islands from which to to attack Japan in the 20s and early 30s.It’s all there in the UK foreign policy documents if you can be bothered to trawl thought them.
War is all about money and the human cost means nothing to anybody Axis or Allied.Same today.
The self righteousness we have doesn’t really mean much historically and it has no bearing on the present or the future.
With regards to the game some people on here mistakenly presumed we had a forgive and forget attitude in War thunder which we clearly do not.That is the issue.
Its still very convenient politically for some to live of the memories of WW2 and it’s a boat Gaijin cant afford to rock.
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