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by redis_mlc 2287 days ago
Well ... kind of.

Stalin fleeced the Kuleks to pay for Americans to build factories just before WW2, after Ford's River Rouge industrial city was completed.

He did a good job on T-34 production, but around half of Soviet armaments came from the USA during WW2. The tanks were directly driven to the front - no parking lot needed! :)

Stalin is portayed as a monster because he was. But he was also the great leader his country needed at that time.

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No he wasn’t British Empire and US managed well without such a horrible dictator.