How the Soviets won the war (WWII, that is)
I am going to borrow a bit from a Telegram channel I've been following (Conflict History and News*) since around the time Russia started its full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022. This photo was posted here . What are you looking at, you might ask? These are fleets of military transport vehicles provided by the United States to the Soviet Union (or USSR) during WWII. This photo was apparently taken in 1944. To give you the scope of the lend-lease program and what the US provided the USSR in the way of military supplies, here is a probably incomplete list: — Through this program, the U.S. provided over $11 billion in essential supplies and equipment to the USSR, including: - 400,000 vehicles - 14,000 aircraft - 13,000 tanks - 8,000 tractors - 4.5 million tons of food - 2.7 million tons of petroleum products. That is quite a lot of equipment and food. Would the USSR have been successful in their efforts against Nazi Germany's eastern front without all that assistance? Doubtf...