If Russia was still a communist country, the experts would stay we have no business inferring. I remember how every left-wing group in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world opposed the entry of the US into WWII, unil of course June 22, 1941 when Germany invaded the USSR
Lenin-Lease did many things, like the accelerating the United States debt, ... which is still being paid for.
Learning from the past is not a skill many Americans have.