Do you ever think how to name your promo campaign?
It's very offended. Doesn't you know, there is no Soviets since 1991. Do you still fear of it, or what?
No one in modern world calls Germans nazis, so why do you use S. word?

It's a homage to russian developers, so no need to take offense I guess.
"If USSR still existed we're pretty sure its economy could largely depend on game development."...
"Let's play a little make believe: imagine a Soviet Empire built on the foundation of gamedev studios, producing top-quality strategy games."

It could be worse. I personally thought that last month's "Gooks In The Wire Giveaway" was much worse though not nearly as bad as the "Hitler Was Right Summer Bundle Sale".

Probably a reference to the game Soviet Strike.

GOG is a Polish company. I'm fairly certain that they have their facts straight regarding the Cold War, the Iron Curtain and Soviet Russia. You seem to be living in a very different world than I do. Or you don't play online and don't watch a lot of news...

Pol Pot's PC Game Picks didn't go over real well, either.

seriously...

I honestly don't think anyone at GOG that came up with the name of the promo meant any harm or was bent on offending russian people.

And, as bad as it may be, unfortunately, yes, people in the "modern word" still call germans "nazi". Which seems to me to be a whole lot worse than calling russians "soviets". Seems particularly harmless because a few russian video game developers kind of embraced the term in a more positive light, obviously not with the same meaning and connotation it had until the end of the USSR.

And, believe me, I had a german girlfriend, albeit of czech descent, she was one of the sweetest, cutest, nice girls I've ever met, and people would still taunt me with things such as "what the hell are you doing dating a nazi chick?"

How naive, some people are.

This Nazi right here knows what's up.

And imho, this is exactly where the problem lies. While everyone will (rightly) associate that totalitarian regime in Germany with a major form of evil, too few will recognize that the soviet regime was in particular under the rule of Stalin, as wicked and evil. To summarize it grossly, the population of Russia and Ukraine would probably be the double of what it is today, had it not been for the direct and indirect consequences of the "dictature of the proletariate". The great patriotic war accounts for 40% of that loss, but the other 60% are the result of what happened before and after it.

I wasn't saying nazism was "more evil" or worse than stalinism, I was just referring to how the terms "nazi" and "soviet" are perceived, nowadays. Language isn't history, it isn't static, it evolves. To call someone a nazi is worse than calling them soviet, that was my point, regardless of what historically happened in Russia.

And, for what good it might be, "at least" the dictatorship of the proletariat didn't include any kind of biological racism in any of its written supports and manifestos, something the nationalsozialismus did, in fact.

Officially, Marxism was indeed anti-racist. The treatment of the Kalmyk, Krim Tatar, Chechen and Volga Germans was however not devoid of a racist nature. And then there is the Holodomor, although some view it the largest economic blunder of all times, there are indications that point to a genocidal nature. Add to this that it is usually considered that Stalin's death prevented a purge of the Jewish populations of the Ussr.

Russia still has this in the arse end of nowhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast