re: Why don't we hear more about the Russians helping to end WWII in the Pacific?

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Russia would never have been able to prosecute the war without shipments of raw materials from the US. We would've kicked their arse

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I think both sides were too tired to do much more than bluff - but the Russians did have a lot of troops under arms. They had rebuilt their industry. They would have been a handful (unless we were willing to go nuclear before they got their weapon completed.)