[Regnum] Russia is grateful for the lend-lease provided by the United States to the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, but has already paid for it in full. This was stated on April 30 by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.
He also pointed out that without American help it would have been very difficult, but the USSR would have coped anyway.
"We would have won anyway. We would have eaten up the earth, but we would have won. But they helped us, and we must appreciate it, and we must not forget it," Peskov emphasized at the "Knowledge. First" marathon.
The Kremlin representative also recalled that Lend-Lease was a paid service, and the Russian Federation, as the legal successor to the Soviet Union, paid for it in full back in 2006, precisely during the presidency of Vladimir Putin.
“$11 billion was spent on Lend-Lease… If you put that into our modern money, it’s somewhere around $200 billion,” the Kremlin representative clarified.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 23, Irish journalist Chey Bowes called on US President Donald Trump not to confuse the roles of the US and the USSR in World War II after the head of the White House said that Moscow allegedly helped Washington win. He specified that the USSR destroyed 80% of the military might of Nazi Germany and only 10% of military equipment came to the Union from the US under the Lend-Lease Act, and then all of this was returned in full.
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