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* The Red Alert 1's portrayal of Soviets in general and UsefulNotes/JosephStalin in particular. The very first thing you see in the Soviet campaign is the aftermath of a Sarin gas test, with Stalin and his attaches going over the results. The first '''mission''' they give you involves burning a Polish village to the ground and killing everyone and everything inside, as punishment for sheltering survivors or escapees from the aforementioned Sarin tests. It '''only''' gets worse from there, as Stalin orders mass-production of the gas to exterminate '''entire''' villages and towns that resist the advancing Soviet army.

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* The Red Alert 1's portrayal of Soviets in general and UsefulNotes/JosephStalin in particular.
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The very first thing you see in the Soviet campaign is the aftermath of a Sarin gas test, with Stalin and his attaches going over the results. The first '''mission''' they give you involves burning a Polish village to the ground and killing everyone and everything inside, as punishment for sheltering survivors or escapees from the aforementioned Sarin tests. It '''only''' gets worse from there, as Stalin orders mass-production of the gas to exterminate '''entire''' villages and towns that resist the advancing Soviet army.



** In one cutscene, Stalin swings between drunken cheerfulness and deadly seriousness as he hands an officer a list of names to be purged while having some vodka.
** During the Allied campaign, there is a tense series of missions whereupon you are tasked to rescue an officer who wished to defect from Stalin's regime, whereupon he confirms Stalin's plan to launch nukes at the Allies. It's the desperation in which he begs you to stop his former Premier that will unsettle you.

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** In one Soviet cutscene, Stalin swings between drunken cheerfulness and deadly seriousness as he hands an officer a list of names to be purged while having some vodka.
** During the Allied campaign, there is a tense series of missions whereupon you are tasked to rescue an officer Vladimir Kosygin who wished to defect from Stalin's regime, whereupon regime. Upon his rescue, he confirms Stalin's plan to launch nukes at the Allies. It's the desperation in which he begs you to stop his former Premier that will unsettle you.



** Later "stable" versions of the Chronosphere seen in Red Alert 2 have an offensive bent that will terrify enemy commanders: Besides allowing a canny commander to teleport vehicles around, you can also use the Chronosphere to pick up ''enemy'' vehicles and send them wherever you please - it is entirely possible to drown tanks and shatter ships upon dry land with this technology wielded as a weapon. Furthermore, the effect of the 'stable' Chronosphere is deadly to infantry not in the safety of a vehicle.

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** Later "stable" versions of the Chronosphere seen in Red Alert 2 have an offensive bent that will terrify enemy commanders: Besides allowing a canny commander to teleport vehicles around, you can also use the Chronosphere to pick up ''enemy'' vehicles and send them wherever you please - it is entirely possible to drown tanks and shatter ships upon dry land with this technology wielded as a weapon. Furthermore, the effect of the 'stable' Chronosphere is deadly to infantry not in the safety of a vehicle.vehicle, making the Chronosphere a makeshift DeathRay that can be deployed with a cursor and a mouse click. The "death ray" effect on infantry is shared with the Iron Curtain field too.
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* The Red Alert 1's portrayal of Soviets in general and UsefulNotes/JosephStalin in particular. The very first thing you see in the Soviet campaign is the aftermath of a Sarin gas test, with Stalin and his attaches going over the results. The first '''mission''' they give you involves burning a Polish village to the ground and killing everyone and everything inside, as punishment for sheltering survivors from the aforementioned Sarin tests. It '''only''' gets worse from there, as Stalin orders mass-production of the gas to exterminate '''entire''' villages and towns that resist the advancing Soviet army.

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* The Red Alert 1's portrayal of Soviets in general and UsefulNotes/JosephStalin in particular. The very first thing you see in the Soviet campaign is the aftermath of a Sarin gas test, with Stalin and his attaches going over the results. The first '''mission''' they give you involves burning a Polish village to the ground and killing everyone and everything inside, as punishment for sheltering survivors or escapees from the aforementioned Sarin tests. It '''only''' gets worse from there, as Stalin orders mass-production of the gas to exterminate '''entire''' villages and towns that resist the advancing Soviet army.

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