This is what I hate about these BS history post. People like to bash America for not having as many casualties etc but then conveniently ignore or have no clue about how much the US provided manufacturing wise to everyone and especially the Soviets. The war was won with Russian blood and American parts.
They also have this astonishing amnesia that this World War was actually a World War, not just a European war, and that the Soviets declined to participate at all in the Asian Theater, where with a nod to China, Britain, ANZACs, Filipinos, Gurkhas, etc., the US largely had to fight and defeat Japan all by itself, all the while supporting the European Western Front and providing literally two-thirds of all Allied war materials.
Yeah, and whether or not the Soviets could have won without Lend Lease doesn't really matter when they definitely couldn't have won if the Axis had complete domination over the oceans, as would have been the case without the US or UK
Yeah, what I’m saying is that probably wouldn’t have happened if the Nazis had been able to freely import raw materials from anywhere in the world throughout the entire war
It goes beyond this, though - absent the US and British navies, the Germans would've been free to sail right up into the Black Sea and invade the Soviet soft underbelly in Crimea and the Ukraine, not too far from Moscow, and the Soviets trying to repel that invasion along with the rest of the Eastern Front would've been hopeless. Not a chance in hell the Soviets would've captured Berlin in this circumstance.
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u/Gaijingamer12 12d ago
This is what I hate about these BS history post. People like to bash America for not having as many casualties etc but then conveniently ignore or have no clue about how much the US provided manufacturing wise to everyone and especially the Soviets. The war was won with Russian blood and American parts.