On the afternoon of September 27, 1939, a B-17 heavy bomber landed at an airbase on the outskirts of Washington. It was the very heavy bomber that had made the long journey from Buru to the United States.
After the cabin door opened, Molotov, a Buru Politburo member, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, stepped down from the aircraft.
At the airport, US Secretary of State Hull and a number of senior US government officials had already been waiting.
"Your Excellency, welcome to the United States!" Hull greeted him with a broad smile.
The two warmly shook hands and embraced, as though they were old friends who had not seen each other for years. They seemed to have forgotten that they had once regarded each other as mortal enemies. The United States had wanted to destroy Buru to safeguard the capitalist world, while Buru had likewise wanted to destroy the United States and liberate more of the oppressed and exploited working masses.
"Your Excellency, Secretary of State, thank you very much for the United States' support!" Molotov said.
Now, massive quantities of American aid were being transported along the Great Siberian Railway to the Western Front, enabling Buru's forces to be continually armed and sent to the battlefield to resist Germany's invasion.
However, constrained by the Great Siberian Railway's transport capacity, American aid still accounted for only a small fraction of the war supplies consumed in Russia. Yet as Russian territory continued to fall and its industrial production capacity was steadily weakened, it was foreseeable that American aid would become increasingly important to Buru in the future. Thus, the Bolshevik Russian government attached great importance to its relationship with the United States and hoped to obtain more American assistance.
After exchanging pleasantries at