the truth is the soviets werenot better than the nazis.
The truth is that 'truth' is always lost through pink perspective glasses over the eyes of the beholder.
'Allies at the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials never criminalised aerial bombardment of non-military targets and Axis leaders who ordered a similar type of practice were not prosecuted'
As many historians will tell you, the only reason is: because Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Eisenhower, and entire Allies high command would have to hang themselves together with Nazis, for deliberately ordering close to a million civilians to be deliberately killed/burned alive and countless more homeless and injured.
As you said, the truth is Soviets were not better than the Nazis. It only means you have to look from slightly different perspective.
That being said, Relic chose to focus on Cold war propaganda-ish story line, instead of plenty of heroic stories they could have.
Like in VCOH, they could have easily focused the story on order to burn alive 100,000 people in Dressden and Hamburg and allies numerous desertions trials and sentences, killing close to 100,000 French civilians in air raids, etc.
Evil face of Churchill and order to target civilians, and there you go. You have yourself British Stalin and not so noble and heroic Allied WW2 campaign