A brief background to the American-Russian enmity and the conflict in Ukraine.

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and the USSR would not have won the war without massive American assistance via lend-lease and the air war over Germany.

Western propaganda. The German offensives had already largely failed (1942) by the time lend lease became a significant factor (1943 or 44) in the war effort. The USSR wins either way.

This is correct. The lend-lease myth is probably the 2nd most common misunderstanding about the eastern front. The first one being "if Hitler had just captured Moscow, we'd all be speaking German right now".

Stalin already had plans to fall back if Germany took Moscow and the Wehrmacht was going to get bogged down there just the same. Germany was also losing its ability to fight a 2 front war eventually either way.