Lets not forget Old Joe was happy to stroll down the garden path with Old Adolf until Adolf decided he didn’t need a partner anymore.
If it weren’t for the capitalist West, in particular America Old Joe would have been toast.
No argument that Stalin was one of the most cruel and fundamentally evil leaders in recorded history. He came in a close second to Hitler for the number of Russians and Ukrainians he killed or starved. Also the aid the US rendered to Russia was critically important in many ways. However if it were not for the stubborn , resolute willingness of the Russian people to fight where others simply capitulated, the best of the German army would not have been destroyed and the United States would have suffered immense casualties trying to liberate Europe.Hence many of us now living may not have come to exist.