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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 8463005" data-attributes="member: 6943731">Of course I am from the other side, my Mother's family were practically wiped out by the Germans, not only Czechs and Jews, my sister doing research on our village, has found some of our name were Sinti, Gypsies as westerners call them. The Germans didn't even consider what they did to them a genocide, murdering them at Auschwitz, until the 1980's.Soviets were properly terrified, outnumbered 2 to 1, vs an enemy that they had lost WW1 to, and the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" little better than a poorly equipped revolutionary militia. The Germans were in their time the most powerful army; it was their racism of the Nazis that killed them. We would not had the breathing room to reorganize, move our industry, had they not had the weird duplicity of what they were doing. Still I see people back at home sometimes lionize them, and its like, uh, they murdered 27 million of us?Playing war games, the Germans are the most gameable side, I don't necessarily look down on people for playing that side. Sometimes I question game designers concepts, such as Red Army troops in Squad Leader having a range of 4 and Germans a range of 6, when the average Soviet was far more likely to have used or own a rifle.Nevertheless, having neo-nazis hanging around your business is very bad for business, beyond just their vile beliefs. They will drive off any normal customers.</blockquote>