yes, and the cold war could probably have been avoided as the western allies could have taken berlin, poland etc when the russians were still containing the germans in the east
Yes, I think food was the main thing the USSR got from the US that they needed and perhaps trucks everything else was absolutely dwarfed by the Soviets own production.
Now without Lend Lease and a second front maybe no
Anon, without American food the Red Army would’ve starved to death in 1943 and without American trucks they wouldn’t have been able to reinforce/resupply their line units.
Lend lease started in March of 1941 and had delivered tens of millions of dollars worth of food, fuel, ammunition and vehicles to the USSR before the battle of Kursk in mid 1943.
No they wouldn't the population maybe, but soldiers and Bolshevik party members are always going to get food.
>soldiers and Bolshevik party members are always going to get food
The Soviet Union was still recovering from a famine, and that was before the Germans took their most fertile agricultural territories in Ukraine.
Best case scenario is a stalemate. Worst case scenario is USSR collapse.
Them having infinite resources and the ability to endlessly withdraw east is a total meme. Nearly half of their actual farmland had been lost to the Germans.
Completely recover all of their lost territory and go on the offensive? No.
The USSR received an enormous amount of food, trucks, aviation fuel, and more. This allowed Soviet factories to keep producing the same weapons, armored vehicles, planes, and ammunition.
No. Just look at the power of the LL now in action, where one of the poorest countries in the world is repelling a country that is nominally one of the strongest militaries in the world.
>"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war. The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Stalin
>"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." - Nikita Khrushchev
>"People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own." - Zhukov
Why didn't the US and Britain just ally with Germany to destroy the Soviet Union and then help Japan destroy China? This current timeline is so cursed instead
no
yes, and the cold war could probably have been avoided as the western allies could have taken berlin, poland etc when the russians were still containing the germans in the east
Yes, I think food was the main thing the USSR got from the US that they needed and perhaps trucks everything else was absolutely dwarfed by the Soviets own production.
Now without Lend Lease and a second front maybe no
Anon, without American food the Red Army would’ve starved to death in 1943 and without American trucks they wouldn’t have been able to reinforce/resupply their line units.
The vast majority of LL supplies came after the battle of Kursk.
Lend lease started in March of 1941 and had delivered tens of millions of dollars worth of food, fuel, ammunition and vehicles to the USSR before the battle of Kursk in mid 1943.
>soldiers and Bolshevik party members are always going to get food
The Soviet Union was still recovering from a famine, and that was before the Germans took their most fertile agricultural territories in Ukraine.
No they wouldn't the population maybe, but soldiers and Bolshevik party members are always going to get food.
Best case scenario is a stalemate. Worst case scenario is USSR collapse.
Them having infinite resources and the ability to endlessly withdraw east is a total meme. Nearly half of their actual farmland had been lost to the Germans.
Yes, but it would be devastating to the USSR.
Repelled? Yes.
Completely recover all of their lost territory and go on the offensive? No.
The USSR received an enormous amount of food, trucks, aviation fuel, and more. This allowed Soviet factories to keep producing the same weapons, armored vehicles, planes, and ammunition.
No. Just look at the power of the LL now in action, where one of the poorest countries in the world is repelling a country that is nominally one of the strongest militaries in the world.
>"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war. The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Stalin
>"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." - Nikita Khrushchev
>"People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own." - Zhukov
Why didn't the US and Britain just ally with Germany to destroy the Soviet Union and then help Japan destroy China? This current timeline is so cursed instead
Because Hitler was slightly worse than Stalin when it came to aggressive territorial expansion and he would’ve murdered half the continent
Could the US have defeated Germany without Soviet manpower?
wow it’s almost like military alliances are a symbiotic relationship and anyone who says “X country won the war themselves!” is a retard
Yes, it's called the atomic bomb
real life isn't a civilisation game where you automatically win once you get nukes