You are absolutely right, sorry. I said that merely in the heat of the moment to simplify the issue to majority of readers here, especially the poster who clearly has no clue.

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US aid alone saved Russia
really?

When Britain aided the Soviet Union in World War Two

On the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Russia Now pays tribute to the vast British effort to supply the Red Army in the harshest of conditions



In a radio address on the day Adolf Hitler’s forces invaded, Churchill expressed his sympathy for the Soviet people, saying that though “no one has been a more consistent opponent of Communism than I… Any man or state who fights against Nazism will have our aid.”


Within weeks, British naval convoys began steaming through the enemy hunting grounds on the Arctic sea route to Murmansk and Archangelsk, skirting Nazi-occupied Norway and fighting a relentless battle against the elements.

Convoys moving in the winter months had to navigate in perpetual darkness, while those travelling in the summer were highly visible and exposed to sustained and co-ordinated attacks from warships, U-boats and the Luftwaffe.


In London last year, the then Russian ambassador Yury Fedotov presented awards to Arctic convoy veterans on HMS Belfast, an escort cruiser that served on the convoys and is now a permanent exhibit on the Thames.


“It’s impossible to overestimate the role played by British sailors to provide vital supply routes across the Arctic,” Mr Fedotov said. “The sailors are still remembered in Russia for their bravery and self-sacrifice.”

When Britain aided the Soviet Union in World War Two - Telegraph