Because they turned themselves from a shithole nation into a world superpower practically overnight. The odds were super stacked against them and if it wasn’t for them collapsing under their own contradictions (and a boatload of pressure from fascism worldwide) they would still be one today. Like obviously there’s a lot of stuff I eeeeh at, but when you consider the hand they were given, they played one hell of a game.

The one reason everyone either loves or hates them all boils down to the fact they ended the nazis. Hence why all anticommunists are fascists.