Why did russia support US in world war 2?

Answer 1

Well, the Russians did not actually "support" the US during the war. It was pretty much the opposite. The US and the UK supported the Russians. The British were already at war with Germany, when Germany invaded Russia. Six months after that Germany and the US were at war. So all were fighting the Germans. The US sent Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, to keep the Russians in the fight. These included many, many tanks, tens of thousands of trucks, railroad locomotives, airplanes, and much besides. It was not easy to get these supplies to the Russians. About half the year, when the ice receded, it was possible to sail convoys to Archangel and Murmansk, in northern Russia. But these had to sail around the north cape of Norway, and Norway was occupied by the Germans. German airplanes based in Norway took a huge toll on these convoys. Iran, which was leaning toward an alliance with Germany, was invaded by the British from the south and the Russians from the north, at the same time, to open up a road into southern Russia over which supplies could be sent. The US got into the war because the Japanese attacked the US in the Pacific. The Russians had fought the Japanese in 1905, and had been soundly beaten in that war. The Russians had their hands full fighting the Germans, and the Japanese plan was to grab the other territories they wanted without getting into a war with Russia. This must have been a big disappointment to Hitler, who had become an ally of Japan no doubt hoping that the Japanese would again thrash the Russians when the Germans invaded Russia from the west. So the Russians remained neutral in the war in the Pacific, and provided no "support" to the US in that part of WWII whatsoever. In fact, US airmen bombing Japan, whose airplanes were damaged, and then flew to Vladivostok, were interned in Russia for the duration of the war, and the Russians also refused to return the aircraft. (The Russians later made exact copies of these B-29 bombers, which became the first Russian nuclear bombers, the Tu-4). At the Yalta Conference President Roosevelt finally extracted a promise from Stalin that the Russians would, at very long last, enter the war against Japan within 90 days after the surrender of Germany. This turned out to be the day after the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. So the Russians only got into the war against Japan for the last week, when Japan was already beaten, and just for whatever they could grab. The Russians did snatch Sakhalin Island from Japan, which they still have today.