Russians got a lot of help from us, but they hushed that up.
Spam won the Eastern front!
They had to have their arms twisted somewhat to even acknowledge that.
Interestingly, we gave them lend-lease radar units, and much of our Cold War assumptions through the Fifties was based on the functionality of those units as we gave them to them in 1944-45.
When we first flew the U2 over the Soviet Union in the mid-fifties, Kelly Johnson (Skunk Works at Lockheed) was despondent because we didn’t even think they would be able to see the planes.
We assumed they would keep using the radar without improving it, which unknown to us, they had.
They still couldn’t shoot them down until they hit Gary Powers, but we thought they wouldn’t even know we were there.
Yeah, umm, when you sacrifice an entire generation of men who bled themselves white on those fields, you don't exactly chalk up the victory to the folks who supplied some of the hardware. They deserve the national pride that came from Stalingrad. It saved millions of lives, and possibly the world, and easily many thousands of American lives (if not hundreds of thousands). We should be grateful, not they.