Stalin would have disagreed with them.
At a dinner toast with Allied leaders during the Tehran Conference in December 1943, Stalin added: “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.”
Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin’s assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”
U.S. foreign policy has been making the world safe for communism for some time.
Yup! 8,000 tanks; 13,000 aircraft;
250,000 four and six wheel transport vehicles, 100 octane gas, 3,000 locomotives. There is even a monument in Russia to the Studebaker Corporation.