I'm fairly certain we would have got them. We did have the atomic bomb, after all, and weren't afraid to use it...
But even aside from that, the Soviets were exhausted by the end of WWII. 100 Russians died as a result of the war for every 1 American that did the same. They were pretty thoroughly destroyed, and who knows what would have happened if we'd have cut off their lend lease supplies....
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