cooleach

I'm
41 and went to American public schools, graduating HS in 88'. I
basically grew up with Reagan telling us every day about the bad ol'
USSR. It wasn't until 92' or so that I got into White Wolf's World of
Darkness games line and read Rage Across Russia. That book spends a
great deal of time providing historical and cultural background on
Russia before it resets the whole thing in terms of the game
environment. It wasn't until I read that book that I finally learned
about the scale of WW2 on the Eastern front. About the amount of lives
lost. About the battle of Kursk. About the eternal flames burning in
every village that was utterly destroyed, it's people killed down to the
last child. I was never one who bought into all the stupid propaganda
we were inundated with in the 80's. (Fuck Stallone, fuck Chuck Norris,
and fuck a whole lot of the assholes who made Red Dawn.) But I never
realized what the Russians had gone through until a FUCKING GAME COMPANY
finally educated me.