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There was no glee, it was simply a partnership of convenience to defeat the much worse enemy. The west didn't starve and murder their own people to the tune of 10 million+ like the Soviets did, outside of the losses in fighting the Nazis


They starved about 10 million and they murdered another 10 million:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_t...

Their total losses were about 26.6M. For comparison, German concentration camps killed about 6M, but Russia was on our side, so we don’t like to compare these two numbers.




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