About the soviet story in COH2:
I think russian people have every right to complain about the us-centered concept of history about ww2 in which "Overlord" decided the war which is simply wrong. The soviets defeated the wehrmacht decisively at moskau 1941 and faced the bulk of german forces during the war and the civil population suffered incredible at the hands of wehrmacht, SS and SD.
That being said its also true that the russian government and the russian public are simply not ready to put own war myths in question or challenge the own war efforts. I mean Russia officially denied - for example- the Hitler-Stalin pact until the mid 90ties and the killing of thousands of polish officers until the mid2000s.
The ridiculous use of soldiers who were driven to death is no stereotype, it was part of the soviet way of warfare. You only need to study wehrmacht documents, you can find thousands of examples where officers shook their head because of idiotic attacks that costed hundred thousands of live that could have been saved. (Same for german warfare in the last year of the war when germany suffered more causalities than in all years before combined.)
It's company of heroes, not company of war criminals. They didn't show anything like that in the first game even with a German campaign. CoH2 is full of massacring civilians and other junk for no reason.