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Some fun facts: during WWII, one of the biggest contributions the US made to the USSR war effort was food (as well as trucks to transport it). More specifically meat, since one of the side effects of Stalin's assault on the "kulaks" (or wealthy peasants) in the 1930s was the annihilation of something like 80-90% of the Soviet Union's livestock (the main effect, of course, was the annihilation of 5-7 million human beings). And even more specifically SPAM, which Russians often referred to as "second front" - a dig on the fact that they were getting canned meat instead of an invasion of Europe by the Western Allies.