Lend-Lease Aid for the USSR: Genesis & Statistics

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

This is such a great channel! I just discovered it and subscribed yesterday. The amount of work and details put in is very impressive. It’s a must for WWII scholars and historians. This channel is a great complement for any subscribers of Mark Felton’s channel.

[@Armageddon4145]

Thanks a lot. Really appreciated

[@paulcateiii]

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[@SamBroadway]

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[@Armageddon4145]

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[@sheldonwheaton881]

Nice production y'all! Reminds me of " The World At War".

[@asitisrequiredasitisrequir3411]

comparing axis and soviet aircraft prodution, I wondr if the axis fighter roduction was driven a lot by the allied bombing compains or where they mainly sent too the east to fight?

[@williamzk9083]

-The zones of Luftwaffe operation were West, North Africa & Mediterranean and Scandinavia. Each of these 4 sectors absorbed about 25% of Luftwaffe single and twin engine Aircraft. In fact the Eastern (against Soviet Union) was only 23% after 1942. If it weren't for the Western Allies Luftwaffe strength over the Soviet Union would be 3 times greater. -Soviet philes and propagandists like to promote the idea that Russia did 90% of the fighting. The numbers don't add up. 1 The Fight in North Africa lead to the surrender of 150,000 German Africa Korps troops and all of their equipment at the same time as the battle of Stalingrad in 1942/43, a loss just as great though the British and Americans didn't murd their POW. The Luftwaffe Transports and their Escorts alone would have allowed the Germans to achieve their air resupply objectives of the 6th Army. The Soviet Victory at Stalingrad was made possible by Enigma decrypts which told the Soviets the distribution of German forces and allowed them to concentrate their troops at Stalingrad. 2 Allies Invade Sicily in Early 1943 and then Northern Italy in Mid 1943 at the same time as battle of Kursk. Paton's troops got into Germany before the Russians did via Italy and Czechoslovkia. 3 Allies Invade at Normandy in 1944. Table 3. German fighter strength by front, average percentages for successive periods from August 1942 onward Period Single-engine fighters Twin-engine fighters, including night Mediterranean, West, Scandinavia, East, Mediterranean West Scandinavia East 17.08.42 - 11.12.42 22% 19% 16% 43% 32% 47% 3% 18% 11.12.42 - 24.07.43 26% 33% 13% 28% 28% 61% 0% 11% 24.07.43 - 19.02.44 18% 52% 7% 23% 7% 84% 1% 8% 19.02.44 - 20.06.44 14% 58% 6% 22% 4% 85% 3% 8% 20.06.44 - 08.05.45 2% 67% 5% 26% 1% 79% 5% 15% Source: BArch ZA 3/358

[@beyondthehorizon7651]

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[@MrGouldilocks]

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[@drivewaynats3696]

Why has this page gone silent? Are you still doing videos?

[@Armageddon4145]

In standby for now. Need some time. Thanks for your interest and hope to come back soon.

[@Mjdeben]

Churchill and Roosevelt were grievously out of thier depth dealing with Stalin. Thanks for another great video!

[@meddy833]

And Roosevelt's main guy, Harry Hopkins, was known to be sympathetic to Stalin, if not a strait out spy for Stalin. It just still amazes me that Military "experts" totally miscount anything Soviet/Russian make, do, or say about military matters. Drives me nuts. If you want to fix a problem, you must understand you have a problem first.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

I don't think Churchill was. He damn well knew who and what he was dealing with. And I find it hilarious that the only agreement he ever made with Stalin that he kept was a naked carving up Eastern Europe proposal. By that agreement Greece was part of the British sphere of influence and Stalin refrained from supporting the communist rebels in the Greek civil war. But the British Empire was a spent force in the 2nd half of the war. Only the US had the power to contend with Stalin as an equal and Roosevelt's big mistake was in thinking he could 'manage' Uncle Joe. Like he had done with everybody else, foreign and domestic. And maybe, if Roosevelt had not weakened during 1944 and not died the year after, who knows how things would have turned out.

[@jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301]

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Churchil was a russophobic alcoholic, i woudn't take him seriously.

[@meddy833]

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 THAT, is well said and reasoned IMHO. Thank you for that.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

@@jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301 Don't worry, he had his crowning moment of awesome in the Battle of Britain, keeping Britain in the war, but the guy was a nutter and as insane a meddler into military operations as Hitler was. He just had better generals who were able to tell him no more often. I respect the man, but his faults are many.

[@reginabillotti]

Why does this letter refer to the various Soviets as "Monsieur" instead of "Mister", "Gaspadin", or "Tovarisch"?

[@Armageddon4145]

French was official diplomacy language

[@robertalaverdov8147]

A lot of people talk about lend lease to the Soviets and what impact it had. Yet almost no one seems to remember the "lend lease" that western countries provided to Germany in 1940 with the capitulation of France and the British withdrawal at Dunkirk. The Germans captured vast swathes of equipment and material that were an enormous boost to their combat capability in 1941. From guns, vehicles, artillery, fuel, and rations. For example in 1941 upwards of 80% of German motorized transport came from captured stock. Without all of this material the Germans would have been nowhere near as successful or quick in their advance during Barbarossa. The Germans of course couldn't get replacements and by 1942-1943 most of their captured vehicles had been lost to the Russian weather, combat and so on. Levelling the field with the Soviets, who bore the brunt of the fighting from 1941-1943 and had already significantly degraded German offensive power before the majority of lend lease had arrived from 1943-1945. Lend lease no doubt helped the Soviets end the war sooner and with millions less lives lost. But the blood debt that the Soviet people paid; Russians, Ukrainians and so many more is what ultimately defeated the German army.

[@Armageddon4145]

Many thanks for these important and accurate information! That's correct, Lend-Lease needs to be put into perspective.

[@jhdsfalsjhdfjashdkhvjfldld8301]

​@@Armageddon4145The "lend lease" it's just a gloryfied supply program used by modern day Russophobes to claim a bigger US involvement in winning ww2 in Europe than it was not real and downsizing the USSR's leadership and most importantly it's people's sacrifice and achievements.

[@YouTubemessedupmyhandle]

Describing that as ‘lend lease’ is rather disrespectful to those that died in the fighting of 1940, which by a sounder logic were enabled by the alliance the USSR was in with Nazi Germany which included the supply of materials essential to Germany’s war effort.

[@1dcbly]

Not Lend Lease. That should more accurately be called spoils of war.

[@joethewarbringer69]

​@@KZbinmessedupmyhandlelet's not talk about the documents these "western allies" signed in the 30's while comrade Stalin urged for an alliance against the fascists.

[@392HemiM59]

I have always wondered if the USSR ever paid the U.S. back for all the lend-lease.

[@Tancred73]

Yes, with lots and lots of ingratitude!

[@SAarumDoK]

They did in fact.

[@SamuelL9L]

Yes,but..on ruSSian way:) The war is over and the reckoning has come. Of the 11.3 billion USD value, the Americans demanded to pay 2.6 billion USD for what remained undamaged by the Soviets. The USSR refused the payments. In 1948, the US proposed to pay half the amount to the Soviets over a period of 30 years, to which Stalin declared that "...the USSR has fully repaid its Lend-Lease debts with the blood of its soldiers..." In 1972, payment negotiations resumed, with the USSR accepted payments of $722 million, including interest. After another default, Bush and Gorbachev agreed on a new amount in 1990, in the amount of 674 million USD. This amount was finally paid by Russia in August 2006. So, for the aid amounting to 11.3 billion USD (in 1945), the Russians paid a literally ridiculous price.

[@meddy833]

YES! Lets Goooooooooo!!! We want MOAR!

[@NikhilSingh-007]

Based.

[@keithplymale2374]

The Soviet people and the Red Army stopped the German army. However 600.000+ wheeled vehicles, tons and tons and tons of Spam and gallons and gallons and gallons of gas and diesel fed the Soviet soldiers and fed the vehicles carrying them Berlin and victory.

[@SamuelL9L]

The USSR constantly claims selfvictory over Nazism and it is big LIE. The Nazis were defeated by all members of a coalition of Allies, the USSR liberated only a small part of Europe outside SSSR boarders. Without the USA and GB, the USSR would have lost completely. And the liberated Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union eventually turned into an occupation. Some barbarians replaced other barbarians. Western Europe flourished, while Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe behind barbed wire began to impoverish thanks to communist management of the economy, lack of freedom, isolation from world markets.. Russia is evil. The USSR was part of the Allied coalition from 1941, the USSR liberated just east of Europe, without the help of the USA and Great Britain, Russia would most likely not exist today. The liberation of Eastern Europe by the Soviet army soon became the occupation of Eastern Europe. The Soviets later separated the part of Europe that fell under their influence from the free Western Europe with a fence with barbed wire, and all those who fled from the communist misery and ruin were mercilessly shot or torn apart by dogs. Such liberation from the Nazis is very similar to today's Russian "liberation" in Ukraine, where the Russian army has already murdered tens of thousands of Russian-speaking civilians, which it supposedly came to liberate. Many millions of people destroyed their lives, families, property, future, memories... Russia is evil.

[@MAP1-234]

"600.000+ wheeled vehicles" ? ,Exaggeration

[@williamzk9083]

@@MAP1-234 600,000 wheeled vehicles which included Jeeps. 400,000 4WD and 6WD trucks. This doesn't include British aid. US lend lease of vehicles was greater than total German production.

[@MAP1-234]

@@williamzk9083 Exaggeration! The USA sent exactly 375,883 trucks and 51,503 jeeps to the USSR by September 30, 1945 Report of the American Congress from 1946. Sent does not mean delivered. The USSR received exactly 362,288 trucks, including 42,599 after the war in Europe, between May 13 and September 2, 1945) and 47,238 jeeps. . Source Report of the US State Department of November 28, 1945. In addition, the USSR received 32,000 motorcycles from the USA. That doesn't even add up to 450,000. And name the types of these 4WD and 6WD trucks. And maybe you can write something about these tons of Spam and gallons, gallons, gallons gas and diesel fed?