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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lol! Tell Putin to pay back Stalin’s lend-lease debt!


10 posted on 01/23/2025 9:20:47 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

You should check your history blockhead. The debt was settled. From Wikipedia:
“While repayment of the interest-free loans was required after the end of the war under the act, in practice the U.S. did not expect to be repaid by the USSR after the war. The U.S. received $2 million in reverse Lend-Lease from the USSR. This was mostly in the form of landing, servicing, and refueling of transport aircraft; some industrial machinery and rare minerals were sent to the U.S. The U.S. asked for $1.3 billion at the cessation of hostilities to settle the debt, but was only offered $170 million by the USSR. The dispute remained unresolved until 1972, when the U.S. accepted an offer from the USSR to repay $722 million linked to grain shipments from the U.S., representing 25% of the initial debt with inflation taken into account, with the remainder being written off.”


55 posted on 01/24/2025 2:59:52 AM PST by rxh4n1
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