Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Did the Soviet Union win WW2 alone?" video.

I saw a really good video just recently about Lend-Lease. The person being interviewed was talking about a T-34 that he saw being refurbished, and discovered that most of the steel, all the aluminum, many of the tools used to make it and a lot of the parts in this signature Soviet tank were made in the US! He also commented on the bulk of aviation fuel used by the Red Air Force was made in the US as well. And mentioned how troops that could have fought in Russia were siphoned off to face the Allies elsewhere during the war. He didn't add that almost all the trucks and radios used by the Red Army, as well as one-sixth of the Red Air Force, were all manufactured in the US. Nor did he mention the large numbers of British and American tanks that were used on the Eastern Front either. Plus all the food that was given to the USSR by the Allies. So no, the Soviet Union did NOT win WW2 alone.
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@tunisiandom9318 How many divisions did Germany keep in Norway to counter Allied invasions? 12. How many divisions did they commit to Italy? At least a dozen. How many troops did the Axis lose in North Africa? Lots. The final surrender involved over 250,000 German and Italian troops. Think what those troops could have accomplished on the Eastern Front. Your response also ignores the fact that the Allies supplied the Soviet Union with sufficient material to stay in the fight and not collapse. It was a combined effort. Yes, the Soviets did engage the vast majority of German land forces throughout the war, but the point being made here is that the Allied contribution to the USSR's war effort is very frequently ignored. And that is skewing the narrative.
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@nicolasvanhorton5043 Those supplies also saved Soviet lives as well, and as TIK pointed out, enabled the Red Army to launch attacks that covered 200 or more kilometers in a single offensive. Without US trucks those advances would have been impossible. Let's not forget that.
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Something a lot of sources don't cover is that one reason that the German Army was so well trained in 1939 was because they did the bulk of their training in Russia during the 1930s. So this is another way that the Soviet Union helped create the Wehrmacht and the Nazis.
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@tunisiandom9318 You are incorrect. I don't know where you got your data from, but there were about 265,000 Axis troops in the pocket, not 600K. I think you are confusing the total number of Axis losses during the entire campaign (August 1942 to February 1943), which includes the 265K in the pocket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad Glantz and House's Stalingrad Trilogy Meanwhile, the Axis losses in the Tunisian "pocket" were 275,000 troops, equal to the Axis losses at Stalingrad. For the entire campaign, admittedly lasting longer, total Axis losses totaled around 430-530,000 troops, again comparable to Stalingrad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_campaign Oh, and don't forget the 275,000 Italians taken off the Axis roster in Ethiopia either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_campaign_(World_War_II) So, no, I am not overestimating the Western and African fronts. By the way, these figures are supported by a lot of literature.
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@TheBigheadValley The Soviet Union DID help the German army train prior to WW2. From Wikipedia, "By 1922, Germany had begun covertly circumventing the conditions of the Versailles treaty. A secret collaboration with the Soviet Union began after the Treaty of Rapallo. Major-General Otto Hasse traveled to Moscow in 1923 to further negotiate the terms. Germany helped the Soviet Union with industrialization and Soviet officers were to be trained in Germany. German tank and air-force specialists could exercise in the Soviet Union and German chemical weapons research and manufacture would be carried out there along with other projects. In 1924 a fighter-pilot school was established at Lipetsk, where several hundred German air force personnel received instruction in operational maintenance, navigation, and aerial combat training over the next decade until the Germans finally left in September 1933. However, the arms buildup was done in secrecy, until Hitler came to power and it received broad political support."
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17:00 It should be noted that a large proportion of the Soviet losses (4.5 million casualties) occurred between June 1941 and June 1942, when large formations of Red Army soldiers were surrounded and destroyed during Operation Barbarossa and Operation Fredericus.
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@fiddlersgreen2433 However, the point is that the MEN could have been sent as replacements for those who were lost without drastically affecting the logistical issues in the East. These soldiers were tied down facing off against the Allies. It is all part of a larger picture. By the way, if you checked out Glantz and House, or listen carefully to one of TIK's episodes on Stalingrad, you would hear about Russian units at Stalingrad equipped with BRITISH Valentine tanks. I wonder how many aircraft flown by the Red Air Force were P-39 Aircobras? How many American trucks were moving supplies in the region for Russia? I do know that the Russians were eating Spam at this time. So already in 1942 Lend-Lease was having an impact.
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@Reptornicus Will have to see if I can find it again. I seem to recall it was not one of the usual channels I watch.
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