To: SLSUSMA who wrote (452 ) 5/13/2001 9:35:31 AM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Interesting bit of creative history there SLSUSMA.... Stalin KNEW that Japan was planning to attack the US and would not attack the Russians in support of Hitler (probably Japan's biggest mistake). Thus, just when the Nazis were invading the outskirts of Moscow, the capture of which would have eliminated Russian lines of communication and supply west of the Urals, Stalin was able to redeploy his Siberian Guards divisions to its defense, and the winter counter-offensive.geocities.com motlc.wiesenthal.com Aid ultimately worth $11 billion began to flow in large quantities after Germany declared war on the US on December 11th, directly from American ports via Vladivostock in the Soviet Far East, the Persian Gulf, and Murmansk and Archangel on the Arctic Coast. The most perilous convoy route-often over half the merchant ships were sunk by the Germans-was "the Murmansk run" to Russia's only ice - free port in winter. 400,000 of 650,000 Soviet army trucks were of American supply-as were 2,000 Soviet locomotives and 11,000 freight cars. American - made boots were being worn by 13 million Soviet soldiers who often depended for their food rations on five million tons of grain provided by American farmers. (note: not only did the US provide lend-lease to the Russians, we suffered tremendous personal and merchant losses delivering it).shsu.edu
