21st Century "heroic" American troop: gets sent halfway across the world to a foreign desert hellhole to fight for democracy or oil or something he doesn't really understand. Loses, fails and returns home to unemployment and economic recession
20th century valiant Soviet soldier: enlists alongside their whole country to resist the invasion of their homeland and their annihilation. Successfully avenges the deaths of their comrades and relatives by crushing an unambiguously evil empire's hopes and dreams and forcing their leader to kill himself. Returns home to post war prosperity as the people who once destroyed their land are made to rebuild it in reparations.
21st Century "heroic" American troop: gets sent halfway across the world to a foreign desert hellhole to fight for democracy or oil or something he doesn't really understand. Loses, fails and returns home to unemployment and economic recession
20th century valiant Soviet soldier: enlists alongside their whole country to resist the invasion of their homeland and their annihilation. Successfully avenges the deaths of their comrades and relatives by crushing an unambiguously evil empire's hopes and dreams and forcing their leader to kill himself. Returns home to post war prosperity as the people who once destroyed their land are made to rebuild it in reparations.