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Originally Posted by cheesehawk
Our western history and it's ignorance of the contributions of the Red Army/VVS is deplorable. The new theatre (I'm only opposed to not getting all the fixes in the current game, nothing wrong with getting the Eastern Front itself) is a great oppurtunity to learn about the most vicious air war in the history of man. That's where the real meat grinder was that chewed the Third Reich up.
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Couldn't agree more mate. Flying the old IL2 series made me research the Eastern front in depth, and I couldn't believe how dismissive of the importance of it my historical upbringing had been. No doubt down to cold war suppression of the facts.
