Strange position you have there. Do you know that many Russians believe that the US let them take the brunt of the Nazi’s attacks at a great loss of human lives? They resent us for that(and many other things).
My position on Russia was formed by research and actually being in Russia.
Oh my. Who knew you are a Russian scholar? At any rate the next time you're rubbing elbows with the intelligentsia you might mention that it was Stalin who entered into a non-aggression pact w Hitler and that the USA had nada, zip, zilch to do with Operation Barbarossa. Rather it was their embrace of bolshevism that set Hitler off.