While taking care of a bomb from WWII...

The debris of eight Hurricane fighter planes was discovered in the Kyiv region

Ukrainians find what is left of 8 buried Hawker Hurricane fighter planes.

That is something I did not know about. Go figure. Help them with the war and end up in a cold war with them after..... 

You also have to ask: "why did they throw them in a ditch and bury them?"

Because Russia to this day denies the rather massive US (and Allies obviously, mostly US though) war aid in WWII (which includes planes, tanks, truck, raw materials etc. LOTS of stuff) was of any effect. 

There is no evidence of the US aid shown in Russia (memorials, museums etc). You know why?  Because they destroyed and buried all of it!

Yes, Russia has been a shiny happy person for a long time...

As you can see, not exactly a small amount.  Yes, that does say 4.5 MILLION tons of food!!

You're welcome a-holes!

Within the Lend-Lease legislation, the USSR was required to pay for any donated military equipment that remained intact after hostilities ended.

Some Hurricanes were deliberately broken up and buried after the war so the Soviets did not have to pay back the United States. This was the fate of the eight Hurricanes found buried.

On-board weapons, avionics, radio stations, nodes, and aggregates that could be useful were removed from the fighter planes. After that, the planes were partially disassembled and buried in a ravine.

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At that point the Hurricanes were just spare planes.  

Noddaz said:

At that point the Hurricanes were just spare planes.  

And obsolete ones by that point.  They were a tube frame construction covered with wood and fabric, rather than monocoque.

Only the fuselage was triangulated tube frame.  The wings where standard stressed skin construction (excepting the landing gear structure area as shown below), pre-war Hurricanes did have fabric wings.  

The designs are very similar to race cars.  A semi-monocoque body of course will be lighter, but also less robust. You can shoot away most all of the skin and it will still be intact as long as the structure is mostly intact.  

There is obviously a reason why modern race cars are made with triangulated tubular structures.  You certainly should not dismiss them as outdated because of the construction.  In the role of ground attack (which is what the Russians primarily used them for) robustness is very much preferred over lightness.  By 1945 they certainly where outdated in general performance though.

Regardless of the motivation of why they where destroyed, the point that the Russians essentially refuse to admit western help was critical to their fight in WWII is certainly true. They will commonly brag "they won WWII", which is far from reality.