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The British Headquarters in Fight for Freedom - here you can manage your army, learn HQ skills and talk to the field commanders. Montgomery will join in a bit later. Please let us know what you think.

To infinity and beyond!

New unit from the upcoming Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom - the British dive bomber A-31 Vengeance Mk. II

To infinity and beyond!

New unit from the upcoming Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom - the British dive bomber A-31 Vengeance Mk. II

We are happy to share with you screenshots of the last historical character of the upcoming Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism — Joseph Stalin.

Strategic Mind: Scpectre of Communism. Is a (hi)story-driven turn-based strategy set in the WW2 period. Lead the USSR Armed forces staging the world Communist revolution!

Available 13th November.

Strategic Mind: Scpectre of Communism. Is a (hi)story-driven turn-based strategy set in the WW2 period. Lead the USSR Armed forces staging the world Communist revolution!

Available 13th November.

Historical personalities in “Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism”: Konstantin Rokossovsky. Try free Demo

About the character

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! (c) Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Konstantinovich (Xaverevich) Rokossovsky (Polish: Konstanty Rokossowski; 21 December 1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish officer who became Marshal of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Poland, and served as Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 until his removal in 1956 during the Polish October. He was among the most prominent Red Army commanders of World War II. Rokossovsky got himself a reputation of Soviet most gallant commander, who cares for his troops, and for whom words honor and duty are not the empty words. He was calm, composed, and courteous with both his subordinates and superiors. His military talent and expertise are also highly acclaimed. In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian. (c) Konstantin Rokossovsky He was born and brought up in Poland, his mother being Russian, and father a Pole. He was serving first in the Russian army during WW1, then in the Soviet one. It’s during his Soviet career he had to pretend he had no Polish father (hence made up patronymic “Konstantinovich”, Xaverevich being the real one), and was unrelated to a Rokossovsky noble family of his ancestors. Nonetheless, the highest authorities knew of it and did take it into consideration when they planned to appoint Rokossovsky. After the war, he was posted in Soviet Poland, where he did not live for 35 years, and the locals were considering him a Russian overseer. The ultimate irony. In 1937 during the Army purges, he was arrested and taken prisoner for almost 3 years. He was accused of being both a Polish and Japanese spy, based on the fresh testimony of a person 10 years after death. According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rokossovsky endured two mock shooting ceremonies where he was taken out at night by a firing squad, but then returned to prison. He was set free in 1940 when the lack of qualified General Staff became glaringly apparent. Despite all the hardships, he remained loyal to the Soviet state.

Historical personalities in Spectre of Communism | Part 3 — Kliment Voroshilov

Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one. (c) Kliment Voroshilov Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union (the highest military rank of the Soviet Union). 

In the game: During the operation in Poland, Zhukov suggests remaining the captured “Smialy” Polish Armored train into “First Marshal” to appease Voroshilov if you complete one of the secondary objectives) First Marshal (Первый маршал) was a honorific name for the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union, used in songs, etc.

In 1925-1940 Voroshilov was People’s Commissar for Defense (in modern terms: Minister of Defense). So, over 15 years he was responsible for expanding, modernizing and training the Red Army. 

In the game: Voroshilov starts out as your superior. Historically, he lost his People’s Commissar position after the Winter War, afterward he still held various prominent positions in the Government. But in the game, he manages to cling to it for longer, due to the player (acting as Zhukov) being a bit more successful than it was historically.

Many types of military vehicles were named after Voroshilov. The most renowned ones being KV-1 and KV-2, where KV stands for Klim Voroshilov. Additionally, his hometown was also named after him - Voroshilovgrad. Nowadays, it is a city of Luhansk in Ukraine. 

In the game: The KV-1 and KV-2 tanks are present.

Recently, the players from Germany may have noticed that the Store page was not available in the region.

The problem was that without a prior warning, a regional restriction was set by Steam due to the game having “images of Hitler”. When we talked to them about the situation and explained our view on the topic, we were asked to follow one of the three scenarios available:

Leave it as is and keep the German region locked

Remove all “images of Hitler” from the game

Get the USK rating as proof that in our game images of Hitler are not forbidden. (The thing is that showing “Nazi symbols” is allowed in Germany if that is a work of art (a film, a historical study, or a game), but the restriction for games was lifted only 2 years ago, and the legislation is kind of murky about it. So, the USK rating would have served as a proof that we qualify for that paragraph of the German law.

We thought that getting the USK rating was a good idea anyway, so we should try and get it. At the same time getting the USK rating could take quite some time, and we did not want to leave the German players unable to play the game over an extended period of time. So, we decided to come up with a quick solution to lift the restriction and then apply for the rating.

We had to create the special German-only version of the game and blur all Hitler images to make it available again. It took us quite some time to pass all Steam reviews again, but now, finally, the restriction was lifted.

We are sorry that we have to blur the Hitler images and create a separate German version of the game.

Yet, we think it is more important to keep the game available to German players. We will do our best to get the USK rating and restore the unblurred version in Germany, but we have no idea how long it would take us, as we depend on other organizations to make it happen.

We would like to remind, that in all versions of the game all symbols were “denazified”, following the “denazification” process in Germany after the war. For example, swastikas were replaced by Prussian cross, etc. So, we did not expect any issues in that regard.

Feel free to ask any questions — we will gladly answer them.

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg gameplay screenshot.

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg cinematic screenshot.

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg cinematic screenshot.

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg cinematic screenshot.

Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg cinematic screenshot.