To be honest, I'm living in Estonia at the moment and there are a lot of small villages, particularly out East near the Russian border, that look a lot like what the dev updates show. Baring in mind these were probably built in the times of the Russian Empire I can guess they're pretty much similar. In these cases, yes, the churches a lot of the time are on the outskirts of the towns, not necessarily in the middle. The gardens look pretty accurate, even though this isn't a garden sim as Corto said. The houses actually look bang on right, even the colours just look spot on.
Otherwise though, if there's one thing I think we can certainly trust 1c to do well, it's model the countryside around their offices. There's a big difference between the amount of money, time and resources it'd take to go and recce and get an idea of 1940's Britain than it is to get an idea of 1940's Russia for them, and from what I have seen they have it pretty much right in my eyes.
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