In theory they don't want to commit genocide.
I'm not a historian or any kind of scholar of political ideologies, but I'm fairly certain that every country that successfully overthrew its government and established a communist regime (not talking about socialism or social democracies) have done so with genocide, in reality and in theory. In theory, its paramount to instigate a genocide in a communist takeover to wipe out and steal the property, money, and power from the elite (and even the middle class). The Soviet's had to viciously murder their own royal family, children included, purge their military of thousands of soldiers/officers who were suspect as not being completely loyal to the ideology, murder their former colleagues who's idea of "communism" wasn't congruent with theirs. Then there was the genocide of everyone who in any way supported the royalists, or even supported the wrong "style" of communism that didn't win out in the end.
This doesn't even get into the millions and millions who died of starvation because of the failure of the leadership in reorganizing farming, essentially changing the way Russians and European peasants in general have probably been farming and successfully feeding themselves for the past thousand years. While this wasn't necessarily intentional, it is still a genocide based on incompetence by the communist leadership, since they forced this on the population. It wasn't like Russian peasants were given a choice on whether they wanted to participate in collectivized farming.
The Chinese took it a step further. They already had a communist regime built on millions of dead bodies and their aging leader felt the need to re energize the resolve of Chinese communism by having a "cultural" revolution where the young were radicalized to the point where they attacked, tortured, and sometimes murdered their parents, teachers, and elders (the very people who were responsible for supporting Mao in establishing his genocidal communist regime in the first place!)
The hardcore adherents to Nazism (not the rank and file soldiers, generals, and civilians who just went along because they were German and really had no choice) were some evil dude's. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional. But to pretend that communism isn't worse in theory or in practice is asinine. Anyone who believes this is either ignorant of the history or is a radical themselves who believes that "the ends justify the means". In this case, the "means" involves a complete reorganization of society which will absolutely require a genocide, massive starvation, and rampant theft in the name of "redistribution of wealth".
No thanks.
What do these idiots think we did in World War II? We didn't actually fucking LIKE Communists. They were just doing a really good job killing the same people we were, and we obviously got right back to trying to destroy each other once the common menace was gone.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." That's just the way it is. As unrealistic and historically stupid this game seems to be based on what I've read (wasting a lot of excellent opportunities to add factions, people, and alliances that would actually be much more interesting and make a lot more sense in the context of the fantastical plot of a Nazi German occupation of America) this is one basic thing that they did do right. It's not all that impressive though, because they'd have to be really fucking stupid to ignore something as blatant as the fact that Western democracies fought alongside the authoritarian communist Soviets against the Germans.
A pretty funny quote from Churchill regarding the Allies fighting on the same side as someone as despicable as Stalin: when the German's invaded the Soviet Union and broke the non-aggression pact with them, Churchill said something like, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." lol Churchill was the man!
Historical accuracy clearly isn't the name of the game here. The Nazis winning is clue enough, because the real Nazis were hilariously incompetent once the rest of the world actually started fighting them. All those "wonder weapons" that the History Channel used to cream itself over before it got overtaken by reality TV were impractical at best, outright lethal to the user at worst. Just look up the Me-163 Komet for a good laugh.
It's a video game. Black and white morality is far more likely in this case, and expecting a positive depiction of the KKK is pretty exceptional, all things considered. Sure, the same can be said for the Commies, but the USSR was a huge help in the actual war.
As a history sperg, I'd be far more annoyed at the idea of the Nazis being competent enough to win than the KKK being inaccurate. If this was trying to be historically accurate, that is. It's not, so I don't care. You want historical accuracy, go read a fucking book.
I know what you mean, that they aren't going for "historical accuracy" since the chance of Germany actually winning the war when they were literally fighting against the entire civilized world was EXTREMELY slim. Their chances of not only winning the war, but successfully invading and occupying the entire United States is not even a possibility, even if every one of their History Channel "wonder weapons" worked.
But, in a work of fiction like this game (or a book, a movie, a television show, a comic, etc.) that deals with an "alternate history" scenario, the creators have the opportunity to make the story so much more interesting and engaging when they actually spend a little more time researching actual history. For one, it gives their work some authenticity, that a person like yourself who is a "history sperg", something that they will notice when experiencing the story. Think of it as a nod to reality in an otherwise fantasy story, something like "an Easter Egg" that you wouldn't notice unless you have a little bit of knowledge about the actual subject matter, in the case of this game, WWII, the Nazis, 2oth century American history, American/German historical figures, etc.
Doing things like this just makes the world feel so much more authentic and makes the experience more enjoyable all-around. Even if you aren't knowledgeable about the historical references, it might spark someone's interest so that they seek out information about the subject matter on their own, which is always a good thing. The creators are in a unique position and have the power to do these things, but from what I understand, they seem more interested in capitalizing on the "current day" political environment in America right now rather than trying to do something interesting with the material.
And yeah, its just a game where you get to shoot people, but games have come a long way since Wolf 3D came out on DOS. Great game for the time, but very light on the story, so it literally was just a game where you shoot people. Now, even games like this are very story driven, and from the looks of it, this seems like its going to be very story driven.
Idk, it just seems like a huge wasted opportunity to me. Rather than doing something interesting, it looks like its going to be more of the same old same old bullshit.
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