They also had a lot of material help from the USA. If not for that, the USSR could have fallen to the Nazis.
Yeah, and they never paid back a dime of it either and all the time it was “When are you going to launch the second front’’? Every once and awhile I run into some Russian on the internet talking about how the brave Red Army vanquished the Nazis. When I point out to them that old Joe Stalin was quite content at first to walk down the garden path with old Adolph they shut up.