“We weren’t very good about supporting Russia. We shipped as little as we could up to Murmansk.”
We shouldn’t have helped at all. Russia went halfsies with Germany on the invasion of Poland and we should have let Germany and Russia maul each other when their partership ended.
We could have avoided the Cold War and likely not had Korea or Vietnam either.
Germany’s invasion, and the allies help revived a USSR on it’s last legs. Even Stalin thought he was going to be executed.