User blog comment:Diegox223/Gary Oldman doing a Reznov representation on Live TV./@comment-5017379-20120104235053/@comment-3285456-20120105000445

I don't see your point. Fair enough if you didn't like it but it makes sense if you think about it. The game is meant to be set in Cold War/Vietnam era and that was around the time these speculations began.