How did russia become a allied power?

Answer 1

By spending most of their resources on the military and driving the country into bankruptcy.

CORRECT ANSWER:

Russia became powerful because of it's nuclear weapons: it has over 16,800 nuclear weapons, more than anyone in the world (the US is in second with about 9,600) that is where Russia mostly gets its strength

even more correct answer:

after Stalin succeded lenin he set out to mass industrialise the country.

he succeeded more a less in time for World War 2 in which these new factories could churn out thousands of tanks, guns, whatever

this turned russia into a industrial and military superpower

Answer 2

Because Hitler decided to invade Russia. The US immediately saw that a two-front war might seriously weaken Germany if they were to help the Russians. Also, they figured out that if Hitler managed to defeat Russia, he would get access to all the oil and raw materials he needed for his war effort and that he also would get access to enough manpower to match anything that the Allies could muster - and focus all that on victory in the West.

As it turned out, the US figured right. Against a very cautious progress of the Allied forces in the West (all Allied leaders and most generals were out to keep casualties to a minimum) the Russians counter-attacked the Germans ferociously, with little or no regard for their own losses. Against the Western Allies' total death count (including the Pacific!) of about 800,000, the Russians had about 10 million soldiers killed in their "Great Patriotic War" against Germany alone.

Answer 3

they werre fighting and ruussia was awesome