All the money and supplies we gave Stalin were though.
“All the money and supplies we gave Stalin were though”
Not too sure it was all free. Stalin loaded a British cruiser, HMS Edinburgh with a ton of gold bullion in the Russian port of Murmansk. They said it was intended to pay back the U.S for all the help we gave them. The Germans sank that ship and the gold 850 feet deep in the Barents Sea. The gold was recovered in the 80’s by a group of North Sea saturation divers. I was bell partner with the diver, John Rossia that brought out the first bar of gold. There is a documentary on it on youtube, “Stalin’s Gold”.
(If you watch it, don’t believe the claim that a portion of the gold was not recovered) :)
Agreed. My dad served on the artic convoys to Murmansk. The efforts of the western allies to supply Russia were immense.