u/Important_Lie_7774

Cache was a CSGO map based on Pripyat, Ukraine. It was originally a community map that was later added to the active map pool. On moving to CS2, Valve hadn't ported the map to the game immediately. Valve had been teasing the CS2 cache for a year, the original map creator had built his own CS2 version of Cache put in the community maps. It has all the communist iconography intact. And valve has released its own version today and has removed all the prominent obviously communist symbols from the map. I could spot a small sputnik poster somewhere on the way to A site but that's it. It was long speculated that communist symbols could be gone due to political censorship in Ukraine, Russia, China (China doesn't make sense to me too) and some other European countries. But the map looks absolutely beautiful but deliberately removing communist symbols makes it feel figuratively empty. Is this mccarthyism or pro-ukrainian nazism or something else? Either way Cache could have been better.