• @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    24 months ago

    Being late to WW2 helped and so did being distant from both fronts. Thus no widespread damage and ruin to recover from for decades.

    • @Heavybell@lemmy.world
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      24 months ago

      And all that lend-lease money to collect :P (I assume, at least. If someone comes in and tells me the US wasn’t paid for all that gear I’ll be shocked, but prepared to believe it since stranger things have happened)