>>>>If my grandfather was still alive I would make sure he understood how you Europeans feel about our participation, but alas he is not so he will never know.
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>>>If my two grandfathers were still alive, I would do the same. I guess I could count my wife's grandpa, who stormed the beaches at Normandy, but that is a minor detail. Any yahoo can do that. It takes a real man to sit on a message board and throw eggs at Americans day after day.
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>>If the US hadn't been so determinedly isolationist, my maternal grandfather might have lived a lot longer instead of being murdered at Auschwitz. We should be embarrassed about how long it took us to get into World War II.
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>>Tamar
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>USA had no obligations to help Stalin. Would you imagine Soviet Union voluntarily giving help to America?

The British, of course, helped the Russians a lot, with Baltic convoys, running the gauntlet of German U-boats and the severe winters. Many merchant mariners lost their lives. Only the Russians have ever honoured these men. The Merchant Navy even stopped their pay, once they had no ship under them, i.e. sunk.

Now I don't know what supplies they brought the Russians, whether there was also US materiel, but if there was then the US DID help them, to a certain extent.