Captain America Missed The 1980 USA-USSR Olympic Hockey Game?!?

I've made no secret of how much I'm bugged by "rolling timelimes," particularly when it comes to Captain America. So this week Marvel decided to throw a little bit of salt in my wounds (from Captain America: Hail Hydra #2):

That's Steve Rogers, shortly after his resurrection, meeting up with Trude Lohn, a WWII German resistance fighter Cap had worked with in the previous issue.

"You slept through the Cold War."

Sigh...so, Jack Kirby lied to us when he had Henry Kissinger giving Cap a secret mission to save the Bicentennial?? Double sigh.

Of course, the other problem with a rolling timeline is, once you start playing fast and loose with fictional history, maybe you start to lose your grip on ACTUAL timelines and history (assuming, of course, you ever had a grip on those to begin with).

"When the wall fell, greater evils rose."

Oh, yeah?

Baader-Meinhoff and the Red Army Faction were founded in 1971, and were most active before the wall fell.

The German People's Union was founded in 1971, and became an electoral political party in 1987...again, before the wall fell.

Of course, maybe their history was different in the Marvel Universe. Maybe there, those groups didn't rise up until after the wall fell, AND they looked to comic-book super-science for "weapons of conquest."

Or maybe scripter Jonathan Maberry just thought the Berlin Wall fell in 1971...