It has always bothered me how Russia so quickly ignored and turned their back on all of our lend lease support, throughout the early years oyears of WW2 . Instead , they quickly turned into our mortal enemy , in Korea and thereafter. The OSS should have dealt with Stalin at Potsdam . What a different world it would be today.
Russia never paid back lend-lease, either.
The Soviets defeated the German nation with grueling combat and unbelievable sacrifice. The USA sold excess industrial capacity and performative military efforts (in the German war, and on a relative basis) for a substantial and oversized share of the postwar world. It was a more than even trade, and one which denuded the European nations and afforded the excess capital (largely devoid of sacrifice) that created the Boomer generation (with their correct discernment that their success was undeserved and unrelated to their actions or development) and the consequent moral void of USA that led us to the present collapse. World War One and Two (in particular) created the moral insolvency of the American shell we see today.
But they were only merchant sailors ...
It has always bothered me how Russia so quickly ignored and turned their back on all of our lend lease support, throughout the early years oyears of WW2 . Instead , they quickly turned into our mortal enemy , in Korea and thereafter. The OSS should have dealt with Stalin at Potsdam . What a different world it would be today.
Having a separate Victory Day was and is a deliberate insult to all the other Allies.