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If Congress and the President are really serious about reducing the budget deficit, why don`t they collect the $11.1 billion that the Soviet Union cost the American taxpayer for the World War II lend-lease war materials?

Great Britain is paying off its lend-lease debt. Why can`t the Soviets?

Why can`t the State Department get tough with the Soviet Union`s bosses and collect the $11.1 billion, which ought to be worth many times that in today`s dollars?