Call of Duty Cold War opens with a mission assassinating Iranian agents in Turkey in 1981, and it turns out *gasp* the Iran hostage crisis was all orchestrated by a Soviet secret agent.
CoD just cannot stop itself from making every world crime Russia/USSR's fault retroactively.
CoD just cannot stop itself from making every world crime Russia/USSR's fault retroactively.
Call of Duty also did this revisionism with Modern Warfare last year, making the Highway of Death, where American forces killed ~1,000 Iraqi troops retreating from Kuwait, instead into a Russian crime done against a fictional Middle Eastern nation, but with the same name.