U.S. aid to Russia is nothing new. And Russians know all about U.S. aid that comes too late. They are especially familiar with this phenomenon in old Samara, now called Kuibyshev, new capital of Russia.
Samara was founded at the easternmost bend of the Volga River in the 16th Century, during the reign of the weakling Theodore, son of Ivan the Terrible. It was to be a fortress against the wandering tribes of the steppe. At first its citizens were mostly Cossacks, but in the 19th Century there was a great influx of Poles and Germans—particularly from Danzig.
The German colony...
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