For reference, you are referring to the following program that was proposed by President Roosevelt:
Wikipedia: Lend-Lease
By the way, from the same source:
Opposition to the Lend-Lease bill was strongest among isolationist Republicans in Congress
In other words, Lend-Lease was never a "Russian plan"...
Vital importance of the Lend-Lease program was widely (albeit unofficially) accepted in the Soviet Union (same above source):
He [Stalin] stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.
However, conflating Putin/Stalin and Russian government with Soviet people who took part in, and/or became victims of, World War II is, to put it mildly, unproductive.
In regards to the notion that "
Russians... hate about the Allies and the US especially", let me assure you that outside of official Soviet/Russian propaganda, there was never any "hate" against Allies in general and US in particular. Now
anger, on the other hand, could be a different story indeed...
I have first-person accounts from several relatives who survived WWII and Holocaust, all of whom were Jewish and none of whom were fans of Stalin (known antisemite:
Wikipedia: Stalin and antisemitism).
For the next story, please remember that the Second Front by Allies in Europe was not open until 1944 -
Wikipedia: Second Front
My grandfather was drafted in early July 1941 and is MIA since October 1941.
My grandmother, who waited for him until her death in 1990, told me once how when she and my father (then 8) were in evacuation in Kazakhstan in 1943 (a year before the Second Front was open and when Soviet Union was the only significant force against Nazis in Europe), there was distribution of clothes received from the US under the Lend-Lease program. She was assigned a nice leather winter coat, which she refused to take. She said: "
Let them [Americans]
take back their coat, and give me my husband back instead." She also later said that "
Americans try to solve everything by throwing money at a problem... if Allies would open Second Front back in June 1941, everything could have been very different..."
In conclusion, may I suggest for any interested person to visit
US Holocaust Memorial Museum online archives on United States role in the Holocaust (spoiler: prior to 1944, it wasn't great)...
And in general, I doubt you'll find anyone who's hands are clean. Just two further examples: Soviet Union executed
Raoul Wallenberg, and US didn't apologize for it's part in MS Saint Louis fate until 2012 (only due to it being during the Obama administration, no doubt):
Wikipedia: MS St. Louis.
As one tourist guide in Lyon (France) told me on the subject of WWII, "
History is complicated". Indeed.
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