Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on WW2:

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Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on WW2: But those same people who helped us through Lend-Lease and the northern convoys, and who promised a second front, later began watching to see which way the pendulum would swing. In the first year of the war, assistance was provided to us immediately and unconditionally because it was obvious that Hitler — as the West believed at the time — was unstoppable. It was no accident that the second front was opened only in the spring — really, at the beginning