The joke isn’t thar it’s not true, it’s that World of Tanks is full of the kind of people who will drop everything they’re doing to defend him.

And kinda. Not sure how deep of a true believer her was, but he was definitely close with the head guy, and allegedly got promoted very quickly as a consequence. Which, conveniently: he was arguably an excellent officer, perhaps one of the best Germany had, but used his aforementioned influence to get promoted way, waaaaay above his capacity at the time, and then subordinate the entire front to himself. This led to a series of stunning victories that ended in a resounding strategic defeat, which makes perfect sense when the guy who’s supposed to be the general is off playing officer because that’s all he knows.