Problem here, almost none of the the Lend Lease shipments arrived until after the Battle of Kursk, and they weren't enough to prop up the USSR like you claim above.

Had Hitler not gone forward with Operation Barbarossa, the entire outcome would have been differently.

Note that attack was on the Soviet Union was on 22 June 1941, long after most of the 'friendly dictatorships across Eurasia' were already established.

While US policies did cause lots of problems, the power for the US to prevent those happening is greatly overstated above.

There are several good books by Mark Harrison and others who explain while it may have shortened the war and help speed the recovery of their economy a tiny amount, it was a drop in the bucket.

As history shows, shorting the war was in the US's interests.

We forget that the US was an active participant in the Russian Civil War, and war-weariness from WWI was one of the reasons we lost that war, along with several after WWII.

The above also ignores the interwar politics like how the Irreconcilables blocked the US joining the League of Nations or the Neutrality Acts that were passed due to isolationism and non-interventionism.

While there were valid concerns that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh and almost certainly played into Hitlers ability to rise to power, isolationism and non-interventionism of the US didn't help.

The US recognizing the USSR in 1933 was during the depression, and during a period of Japanese expansionism, and far more complicated than some form of appeasement as suggested above.

The popular cultural myths are really just propaganda, the Lend Lease wasn't as large or as meaningful as is claimed.

The popular cultural myths are really just propaganda, the Lend Lease wasn't as large or as meaningful as is claimed.

Don't know which claims you're referring to, but if you like you can take the matter up with Khrushchev, Zhukov and others directly:

    I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. ... He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.