Every Historical Inaccuracy in Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War

*The Frosty 1 is back!* My highest of thanks for everyone's support and patience throughout the past few months. Ye have truly been amazing! Corrections: - 3:37 This is actually an Antonov AN 22, however the game still refers to it as a C-130 and we even see the US using it later as a gunship in Cuba, so it's still inaccurate. - 8:09 The Viet Cong were supplied with WW2 weapons from the Soviets during WW2, however I was not able to find any evidence of the MG 42 in particular being used in Vietnam so it still could technically be an inaccuracy but just not as severely inaccurate as I made it out to be in the video. - 15:00 Although it was formally replaced by the AK 74 in 1977, the AKM was still largely used by Soviet forces in the 1980s. If you have any more inaccuracies, facts or corrections to add then please do leave them in the comments. Thank you!

"How has WWIII not started yet?" - Everybody every single day during the actual very real Cold War

I would just like to take a moment to appreciate the fact that in this rendition of "Call of Duty: War Crimes Simulator", you aptly named your character "War Crimes"

The MG-42 isn’t too crazy being used by the VC. The biggest crime of this game is changing the voice actors of Wood, Mason and Hudson!

8:08 I like to think that the inaccuracies are there because since all of this is in Bells head, Adler sometimes messes up the details when describing it to Bell

Here’s a cool fact, in the KGB building, the prison was not in the basement. It was actually located on the second floor with no windows so prisoners would think they were in the basement. Great video man!

8:13 An MG-42 being used by the Vietcong is actually extremely accurate and there is a lot of research and photos that back this up. A lot of old East German and soviet captured surplus were given to the NLF as war support. You’ll often see MP-40s being used by VC elements as well. You prolly won’t read this so I guess it doesn’t matter but yea.

The reason why the Cuba level is so weird is because it was originally going to be set in Nicaragua, and your allies would be the Contras who would help you to assault the compound and clean up after you, but I guess they were too politically correct about having raping, mass execution and drug dealing rebels in their game.

I feel like we can take away the fracture jaw inaccuracies cause that mission is essentially a dream

Fun fact: Black ops 1 got me into psychology, politics, sociology and (military) history. I legitimately thought of a subtle way to reference it in my graduation speech from college.

8:12 I do have to correct something here. The Vietnamese forces used an wide variety of axis and ww2 weaponry, everything from Kar98ks to Mas 36s, and c96 pistols. Even arisaka type 99s were used. A lot those weapons were supplied by soviets or just found or taken off enemy soldiers in previous conflicts. It is not farfetched to think they might have had an mg42 machine gun either

18:30 That technically should not count as a historical inaccuracy, should be more like a glitch or a weapon placement bug which has nothing to do with historical accuracy.

10:07 Considering the mission takes place in East Germany, it's possible that the enemies are supplied, at least in part, by Diestenheit IX (I hope I spelled that right), who did absolutely have HK weapons, namely HK33's, 53's, MP5A3's, some MP5SD's, MP5K's, and even some G3SG1 or PSG1 rifles, dating back to the 80's at the very latest, but some information points more towards them obtaining the equipment in the late 70's. They technically used some ruses and proxies to broker the deal, but HK, by some reports, quickly found out it was the East Germans while continuing to sell to them.

The computer at 11:40 isn't in English but in Russian. We see/hear it in English because Bell was a soviet soldier before he was rescued by Adler and Woods and the reason Woods understands what bell is seeing/hearing is because Bell is translating it for him

I’m surprised you didn’t mention that the first mission takes place on January 12, 1981, eight days before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President, and yet the game shows him ordering the mission. Before January 20, Jimmy Carter would be the only person with the authority to order a mission like that.

The way you even cares about the drink price is outstanding! Keep up like this, Frost!

I like the idea of the game's characters thinking Perseus is a huge threat and chasing him across the world only to find him as a feeble old man in a wheelchair

Its so bizarre how there are incredibly accurate details nobody would notice if they were missing, but at the same time there are non-gameplay related inaccuracies that could have easily been avoided by changing a date or a single NPC.

As someone who got into history thanks to games like World at War and Black Ops, these videos are always a treat. Love the analysis here, much love.

6:08 probably the largest historical accuracy in the entire game