See Which 1 Nation Put Soviet Union in a Class as ‘Global Power’

Guess which single nation, during the years 1941-1945, sent the Soviet Union $146 billion (in current dollars) worth of equipment, queries a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Making up a superpower’s shopping list of 3,770 bombers, 11,594 fighter planes, 5,980 anti-aircraft guns, 2,000 railway engines, 51,000 army Jeeps, 361,000 trucks, 56,445 field telephones, 600,000 kilometers of telephone wire, 22 million artillery shells, 15 million pairs of army boots. Almost a billion rifle cartridges.

And which nation provided technology through the decades that built up the regime’s military-industrial complex? Which nation bailed out millions of people and saved their lives when famine hit? Which nation came through with $16 billion in aid when the empire collapse and individual republics emerged?

The United States. The United States. The United States. And the United States, says a commentator.

That all makes for an interesting love-hate relationship in Russia toward the United States, as described in a recent post from Liliya Shevtsova, who formerly headed the Carnegie Foundation Moscow Center, was a cofounder of the Davos World Economic Forum Global Council on Russia’s Future, and is a prolific writer on Russian politics. (Read more from “See Which 1 Nation Put Soviet Union in a Class as ‘Global Power'” HERE)

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