| First, let's remember that russia was an ally of Hitler's at the beginning of the war. The USA, who apparently didn't help in the war whatsoever, needlessly gave russia the equivalent of $800bn in today's dollars to fight Hitler. We also needlessly sacrificed 400,000 brave young men, to save Europe for the second time in 20 years. Stalin made it clear that the USSR would have fallen without Lend-Lease .. until we told him it was time to start paying us back, then the party line changed to America being the western zionist aggressors. Russia really screwed America as a thank you. They were given a 90% discount on their debt, with zero interest. It took them 70 years to pay it, which means they paid $900,000,000 back on a $250bn loan. 50,000 sailors died at the hands of Hitler's Navy specifically to block that trade. I guess their deaths were in vane? russians will probably say they never died and America never sent aid. Here's a short list of the aid Americans gifted to Russia, who apparently didn't need any of it: 400,000 jeeps and trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
More than 1.5 million blankets
15 million pairs of army boots
107,000 tons of cotton
2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks, and tanks)
4.5 million tons of food Clearly the west didn't do anything. russians fought off Hitler with their bare hands, with no supplies, killing millions of nazis with borscht. Europe and America didn't so much as throw rocks on the western front. |