>>17834605 (OP)> Why do Americans hate Russia?LOL. The truth is that America saved and bailed out Russia coutless times, and Russia deliberately memory holed each instance.
> 1891 famineAmerica sent massive help in food, estimated in billions of modern dollars. Russia being Russia promptly forgot about it and seethed at America. Also, they actively discouraged the peasants from taking food from Americans. But the aid was so massive and so well timed that Russian peasants actually remembered about it for decades.
>1919-1921 civil war famineAmerica again sends massive aid in food first via ARA and later a dedicated Russia relief act. Saved possibly millions from death.
Russia being Russia promptly forgot about it and seethed at America.
>1930s industrializationAmerica literally gave USSR all the know how to industrialize at discount price, also sent some specialists to oversee the process.
Russia being Russia promptly forgot about it and seethed at America.
>1940s lend leaseAmerica literally saved the USSR from collapsing, a fact admitted privately by Stalin and the rest of the Soviet leadership.
Russia being Russia promptly forgot about it and seethed at America.
>1980s/earliest 1990s and the Soviet collapseAmerica actively tried to prevent the Soviet collapse by lending support to Gorbachev. They went as far as George Bush Sr. travelling in person to Kyiv to talk Ukrainians out of declaring independence.
Russia being Russia promptly forgot about it and seethed at America.
>1990s and Russian years of humilitationAmerica again stepped in to prop what's left of Russia. They gave unlimited credit line and literally bankrolled the Soviet nuclear and space industries so they remain afloat. Also, again sent massive humanitarian aid.
Russia being Russia promptly forgot about it and seethed at America.
> Why do Americans hate Russia?