well china looks like repeating that atm

and with Disney supporting them

Just because a political party calls itself socialist, does not mean said party is indeed socialist.
The socialist values are left, so there can not be a right wing socialism.
A good example of what im saying is the French socialist party, they call themselves socialist but their political views and actions have nothing to do with socialist values.
Definition of words and understanding of terms is very important to avoid confusion.

A small group of cossacks fought for the Germans, most of them fought for the Russians.
Making statements like "Russians lost their property" is wrong. In reality, a relative small number of people lost their property, while the living standards of many people improved. Of course a right-leaning person would prefer to concentrate on the loss of property and not on the gains of the many poor. Personally i think we should look at both sides of the equation.
Thats the historic equivalent of a fairy tale, that is made up to justify dark events.
This statement is a conveniently twisted version of actual facts, i would assume you got such convenient information from far right publications or something similar.
Correct, Stalin was much worse than Hitler in many ways.

Sure i agree with that, but keep in mind that while not all nazi ideology was bad, it led to very bad things, just like the fascist ideology was not so bad, but it led to very bad things.
Historically this kind of ideologies always leads to disaster.
Thats the reason why the adepts of nazism and fascism were mostly young, mostly un-educated people, who bought into the ideology without seeing the trap they were getting into.
Yeah perfectly true, they didnt invent genocide either, but they became known for both.

It's old and stale, has become a parody of itself and has creatively worn out its welcome a long time ago.

But consider the cyclical popularity of zombies. Many people need an outlet to freely let out all of their most base, vicious impulses of violence. But most of them just don't get the same satisfaction unless they can visualize people they hate as the target of their ire, so monsters, undead or aliens don't truly cut it for them.

Nazis, on the other hand, are not only more real and visceral, society actively applauds and encourages violence against them, and you're not bound to have organizations accusing you of bigotry or dehumanization if you have a game in which you're supposed to mow through nazis. Essentially, it has become a form of socially acceptable snuff.

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My only problem is, post-2014, it partially seems a response to Orange Cheeto Hitler getting elected or conflating nationalism/patriotism with something like white supremacy. Everyone is a "Nazi" these days. (Imagine if there was a game where you were defending your home or business from BlackLivesMatter rioters or defending farmers in South Africa, how well would that go over. :P)

Anyway the most interesting Nazi killing to me are the supernatural games that heavily feature supernatural/sci-fi occult elements. But I also really enjoyed Call of Duty 1 and 2.

You have some good point, but this one is simply not true.

Many of the concepts the NSDAP brought to a sad fruition had been (and still are) floating around for quite a while in the intellectual salons since the 19th century. Be it racial theories, or anti-semitism, or the national-socialist ideology - that stuff was zeitgeist, and from the 1880 on, with roots going way further into the middle ages. There's a reason otherwise great minds, artists, scientist, revered Adolf Hitler (before the Poland assault), and that's a thing I find very pretty scary.
It's always easy to point at the simple-minded people, but there's a closed and intricate intellectual system behind all that Nazi stuff - much like an RPG world filled with apocalyptic fights, and much like QAnon today, that captured even the greatest minds.
A few examples:
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Thomas Watson (and IBM)
Joe Kennedy (JFK's father)
Prescott Bush
Irenee du Pont
William Randolph Hearst

Even Walt Disney admired Hitler at first (although he became a stout enemy later, and even produced Anti-Hitler movies from his own pocket, which didn't stop the latter to adore Snow White).

I'm leaving out the MANY German intellectuals because it's hard to discern where fandom ends and flag-waving starts. And the list would be quite long either way.

And I feel like it's happening again, not the exact same way, but in principle.

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The important thing is, and returning to games, while "demonizing nazis" hides hides the everyday banality of the evil that happened, backed up by intellectuals with fancy ideas of "Übermenschen" and master races, games like Wolfenstein are important to show that people are not fine with those ideologies. That we revere people who stand up and fight against them.
It's not zombies who can't help themselves, it's not alien who simply don't care, it's deeply wrong and misguided humans, our own kind, who can be our worst enemy. And we're not fine with it. The Wolfenstein nazis are a symbol of that.

If that ever gets old, we're lost.

Umm... not at first.

The original idea was to disown the big land owners and stop the exploitation of the masses of basically bondage field workers, by giving them their own land to work on, and then form collectives of those small time farmers so they could share expensive machines. That was - IMO - a great idea, and it actually worked out for instance in East Germany, where many farmers kept this system alive even after the reunification - and still thrive, because it's really effective.
It didn't work in Russia and other countries, where party officials basically took the power and assumed the roles of the previous big land owners, trying to move as much income as possible into their own pockets. Power corrupts. Add to that the extremely difficult situations everyone faces in Russia after a bloody revolution and a civil war, and two devastating world wars. Of the bright idealistic concepts that were proposed, there was basically nothing left in the end, especially after Stalin took over.

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True. Let's leave it at that.

My elder daughter is a huge fan of Komodo Dragons btw. :-)

Good to hear, maybe she can get one as a pet too :-)

Haha, a German expert, who done no kind of research and posts garbage picked from garbage bins like RFL and Soros clones under 80-402 Public Law! I can easily destroy every your argument, but people like you usually run away before that happens.

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Do you mean the Trotsky? The guy who proposed "constant revolutions" and heated internal civil war? Which own family were feudal Kulaks? Then do your own research where he flee to and why actually Stalin ordered to hunt them down. Its after this US-imported communist mix that civil disorder settled and country started to stabilize - of course it was immediately sanctioned by West. Same stuff happened when Putin pushed oligarchs out of Russia and stopped civil war in Chechnya, he was immediately declared evil dictator.
Bla bla bla BLA BLA.

Who were Kulaks and how did income and education of peasants change between 1920 and late 1930?

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