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Yes, the need to avoid confusion over Gottwald does add a certain urgency. Maybe there will be a payoff in a later volume where some Special Ops team gets sent to assassinate Gottwald, but get confused and go after the fictional grunt? Otherwise I can't imagine what HT was thinking (unless he was simply unaware of the historical Gottwald and chose the name by coincidence, which I find hard to imagine). I was similarly perplexed by Shota Rustavelli (once I learned that that was a historical figure's name, something I was not aware of at the time), but there was no possibility of the real Rustavelli flitting across the pages of that story.

Anyway, I still don't like it, but I can be persuaded of its necessity given the circumstances.