I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war, but it certainly saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by providing much-needed humanitary assistance in hunger-struck WW2 USSR.
As for conciseness, I don’t believe I’ve taken too long to explain my point of view, it’s just that the geopolitics of the era are complicated, and they require lengthy explanation by themselves. I haven’t overcomplicated anything, and it’s your choice whether to read it or not, but it’s a collection of several extremely important points IMO that define the Soviet policy in the prelude of the Great Patriotic War.
As for Poland, can you pinpoint me to what exactly of my analysis you disagree with? I’d like to learn more if you have any valuable input
I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war, but it certainly saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by providing much-needed humanitary assistance in hunger-struck WW2 USSR.
Almost all of the trucks used by the Soviet Military were US-made trucks delivered through that lend-lease program. I would guess that the ability to bring fuel and ammo to the front did help the Soviet Army quite some bit!
It is of course possible they could have won bringing the ammo to the front with horses instead of trucks, but honestly – I doubt they would have made it.
I’m not trying to argue about alternate history, you can speculate as much as you want about a Soviet victory with or without those trucks, I already said that it’s factual that lend-lease saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of Soviet lives. What’s this interrogation?
Hm, I should have actually quoted just the sentence “I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war” because that’s what I was actually referring to. Sorry :)
Because it is very clear that it did save the war. Having lived in Germany, Finland, the Russia, and Ukraine, I hear a lot of that “~Soviet Union~the Russia did it practically all by itself”, which is extremely contrafactual. And hurts the Russia, as they don’t understand what their “možem povtorit’” actually holds to it…
But, it does seem that you and me very largely agree about things, so all in all things are just fine, no worries :)
I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war, but it certainly saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by providing much-needed humanitary assistance in hunger-struck WW2 USSR.
As for conciseness, I don’t believe I’ve taken too long to explain my point of view, it’s just that the geopolitics of the era are complicated, and they require lengthy explanation by themselves. I haven’t overcomplicated anything, and it’s your choice whether to read it or not, but it’s a collection of several extremely important points IMO that define the Soviet policy in the prelude of the Great Patriotic War.
As for Poland, can you pinpoint me to what exactly of my analysis you disagree with? I’d like to learn more if you have any valuable input
Almost all of the trucks used by the Soviet Military were US-made trucks delivered through that lend-lease program. I would guess that the ability to bring fuel and ammo to the front did help the Soviet Army quite some bit!
It is of course possible they could have won bringing the ammo to the front with horses instead of trucks, but honestly – I doubt they would have made it.
I’m not trying to argue about alternate history, you can speculate as much as you want about a Soviet victory with or without those trucks, I already said that it’s factual that lend-lease saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of Soviet lives. What’s this interrogation?
Hm, I should have actually quoted just the sentence “I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war” because that’s what I was actually referring to. Sorry :)
Because it is very clear that it did save the war. Having lived in Germany, Finland, the Russia, and Ukraine, I hear a lot of that “~Soviet Union~the Russia did it practically all by itself”, which is extremely contrafactual. And hurts the Russia, as they don’t understand what their “možem povtorit’” actually holds to it…
But, it does seem that you and me very largely agree about things, so all in all things are just fine, no worries :)