They both have pursued further integration with the larger global economy, but (mostly) the U.S. keeps them from doing so via overwhelming sanctions and the Cuban embargo.

“Stalin did nothing wrong” posts. Where are those, exactly?

We criticize Stalin plenty. We just don’t buy that he ate babies and murdered innocent farmers with his bare hands.

I could see a very interesting storyline where you play as a German or Japanese conscript who becomes disillusioned as you witness the horrors of fascism before your own eyes and frag your superior officers. The problem? Nothing like this has been recorded as having ever happened, not even to the scale it happened during Vietnam among Amerikan conscripts. Either German and Japanese soldiers were so proselytized into their fascistic ideologies that they were ecstatic to be taking part in atrocities, or the post-war German and Japanese governments completely destroyed records of any comparable events. The only historically accurate campaign or story based game you could play as a German or Japanese soldier is one where your player character embraces Nazi or Japanese imperialist ideology fully and completely, or you get shot in the head by your superior officers immediately for showing hesitation. There is no compelling story to be told here, as the majority of the war was not hell for these people. It was looting, raping, pillaging and loving every disgusting fucking second of it.