There's a big shitstorm going on the World of Tanks's official forum right now.
Several Soviet tanks in the game have Russian decals such as "Joseph Stalin", "For Stalin!", "For our Soviet Motherland!" and the like. Many real Soviet tank crews during World War II did put them on their tanks.
After reportedly receiving complaints from some Europeans, Wargaming.net removed them on US and EU servers. Soon, the removal was reported on the Russian internet, and many Russians went up in arms. Rumours that Soviet
IS heavy tanks would be soon removed from the game because of their name (IS = Iosif Stalin) fueled up the rage.
Wargaming.net decided not to anger the Russians. Several days before, Relic's strategy game "Company of Heroes 2" about the Eastern Front of WW2 was pulled off the shelves in Russia by its local publisher 1C-Multimedia because of numerous complaints and online petitions (it portrayed the Red Army and the Soviet Union in a
very negative light). The WoT developers decided to avoid getting into similar trouble, put the decals mentioning Stalin back into the game and
posted about in on their website, stating that the decals in the game are for historical authenticity, and that Stalin's role in defeating the Nazi Germany is unquestionable.
They've escaped the fury of Russians...
but managed to attract the ire of some European players, who accused them of being Stalin's fans, demanded to remove the decals and threatened to boycott World of Tanks.All that fuss over tank decals. I'm not sure it was worth it.
(edit: added missing commas)