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related: https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-nazis-were-rewarded-with-life-in-the-u-s
Two words: Lend-Lease.
- FDR gave tanks to Stalin for FREE? FDR tankie CONFIRMED!!!
- Two more: Operation Paperclip
  
  two more more: Operation Bloodstone
  alternative title: how klaus barbie, the butcher of lyon, evaded justice for decades.
  
  "B-buh the USSR also used Nazi scientists in their military efforts!!"
  Yes. And they were basically on house arrest the whole time too.
  "Well that sounds like a way of sugar-coating the fact that they were essentially forced labour for the USSR!!"
  Good. The Nazi scientists could have served multiple lifetimes worth of forced labour and they still wouldn't have repaid their debt to humanity from all the atrocities that they were accessories to.
  
  Meh.
- A fantastic example of the kind of "support" you can expect from the US. Everything that was given away actually came with a price tag and the receiving countries had to pay it all back, with interest. Even after America dismantled the USSR, they still expected Russia to pick up the tab (and it did, repaying the debt in 2006).
  Imagine it: you're literally fighting a world war against literally the Nazis, and the most assistance that America can give you is a fuckin loan. And as thank you for saving the world against the literal Nazis, the US graciously holds this debt over your head for decades to come. Your wartorn country that suffered immeasurable loss of life and immense infrastructural damage is now obligated to pay the country that did not.
  
  It's the American Way
  ya know just like Amway
- Pure cope
  
  Nah.
- Are you actually trying to make a point with that? If so, what?
OK?
- Okay

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