Patriotic sentiment is not bad in and of itself. Patriotic Zeal, accepting your country is right beyond all doubt, is the first step towards making the same exact mistake.
Can you see any zeal in my words? I've went through the whole topic and found only one person that can be discribed like you say.
Most of people here as I can see - accepting the fact that USSR made terrible things.
But campaign shows us only this side of the coin. And without explaining to people potential motives of some dids (founded concentration camps, burned villages, ,millions of dead, wounded) you will only see irrotional brutallity in soviet people.
Yes they raped. But what would you do, after 4 years of pain, deaths and hell?
What would you do after seeing a concentration camp in action?..
There is no good emotions to in this campaign compared to previous (including Wermacht).
As was said before - you have a feeling of playing bastards in coh2.
And something tells me that it was inteded for marketing purpuses to raise sellings in west. Interesting to see an information about sold copies of Coh2 during this noise in North America.