Nope, history wasn’t hidden since '68.
It was about the depiction of swastikas, which is not allowed except for film and art. But it needed a little time to get to the understanding that video games are art.
And it took even longer for companies to make use of that freedom instead of playing it safe.
Shahed drone
ww1 gunner in a warplane was just a guy in the second seat with a handgun
presumably footage from the Ukraine war of a guy in the second seat aiming with a hand gun. On the plane there are markings of how many shahed drones they shot down.