Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "History Buffs: The Death of Stalin" video.

  1. "Stalin's aggressive efforts at industrialization had become the key to winning the war". The key to the Soviet Union holding out and ESPECIALLY to the counteroffensive afterward was allied lend-lease aid. To be sure the T-34 was the one world-class product the SU ever made, and it was the right product at the right time, but it would not have been enough to stave off the Wehrmacht, by the time of the battle of Stalingrad, USSR couldn't even feed it's fighters and workers without outside help. The tooling for many of the factories in which the Soviet workers were working had been imported from the US. Without the shipped-in truck factories and trucks, the Soviet Union would not have had the logistics for an offensive, even if they held out at Stalingrad, not to mention British and US tanks and US strike fighters.
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