Agreed completely. This could even be expanded into an interesting backstory about how Nazi scientists managed to build technology that can bypass "the great void" (for those unfamiliar, it is the huge gaping hole that stretches to the center of the earth, which exists between Ukraine/Poland and Mongolia).

In light of recent events I advocate writing SSI and asking they remove Russia from the game Panzer General II. have the game just be a story about Nazi Germany invading random unclaimed siberian lands and facing barbarian resistance.