The Soviets would have gone nowhere with out the US. You ignore the fact that the US GAVE the Sovs 10% of their (Soviet)tanks, & 12% of their (Soviet) aircraft.
"In addition (to provision of petroleum products of a kind not available in the Soviet Union- blending agents and high-octane fuels) numbers of complete oil refineries, tyre factories, electric generator stations, machine tools, explosives, and raw materials of all types formed part of this aid. A very large proportion of the food for the Soviet Armed Forces (estimated at 1 pound a day of concentrated ration for 6 million men over the entire duration of the war) came from United States and Canadian sources and much of the Red Army's clothing and footware came from America and Britain." Seaton, Russo-German War,pp589-90
Then there's trucks and rail equipment:
"at the end of the war the equipment holding of the Soviet Armed Forces amounted to 665,000motor vehicles. Of these, 427,000 had been provided from mainly US sources during the war years; contemporary evidence indicates that over 50% of all vehicles in the Red Army were of American origin. These trucks, together with the thousands of locomotives and railway flats, gave to the Red Army the strategic and tactical mobility required to destroy the German forces. At Teheran (Nov. 28-30,1943) Stalin had attributed the Soviet success to the ability to move the High Command Reserve, which he put no higher then 60 divisions, from theater to theater in turn. This mobility could not have been achieved without this US material aid." Seaton, Russo- German War, pp589
US stops giving lend lease and goes over to offensive operations and what does the Soviet army eat?? |
