[fiso64]

Equating the Soviet Union's role to that of Germany during the second world war is certainly uhhh.. one of the takes. It's not as if the US sent tons of food, aircraft, and hundreds of thousands of vehicles to the SU as part of lend-lease.

[varispeed]

The priority was to defeat Hitler and sending Western troops to the East wasn't feasible, so helping Soviet Union with lend-lease was seen as a lesser evil. The idea was then to defeat Soviet Union afterwards. However, the West was too tired fighting and since Stalin didn't look to move westwards, the war de facto got frozen.

[xdennis]

> and since Stalin didn't look to move westwards,

Pardon my French, but WTF are you talking about? Stalin took half of Europe.

It confounds me how people think WW2 ended with a success when millions were killed or enslaved as a result of the "victory".

[varispeed]

The point is the west didn't care about Poland, the Baltics and other states that fell under Russia.

In their mind it was the "price" to pay for relative stability in the west.

The status quo was sealed once Soviet Union has developed their own nuclear weapons using stolen IP. Had this not happened, most likely Stalin would have been pushed back.