>Slavoid trying to trivialize 11 billion dollars in free supplies
Cringe. Absolutely cringe. The west also offered the USSR its own Marshall Plan after World War 2 ended but Stalin refused over power politics, and hoped to leverage industry instead, but thanks to the Cold War they were unable to transition to a peacetime economy, most domestic industry was funneled into the Soviet MIC, the Soviet MIC ends up getting filled with power hungry bureaucrats and the country collapses and transitions to an oligarchy in 40 years as a result. Slavoids literally could not run their own country without foreign aid. It's a plain and simple fact.