Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "The Truth about U.S. Aid to Russia" video.
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No nation actually paid back for LendLease aid. It was just too great.
They could only pay back with wildly inflated currencies -- Pounds or Rubbles.
The French didn't even make the attempt. ( de Gaulle )
Post-war inflation -- world-wide -- has been so great that modern readers can't scarcely comprehend its vastness.
In 1890, in the US, a day's wage for an adult man was $0.75. ( Farm country ) HARD/dangerous/talented wages ran all the way up to $1/day. (Cattle drives) Carnegie's Top Man earned $90 a month. (!) That was FAT money.
By 1913, Henry Ford was.paying $5/day for industrial assembly. That was double the previous norm.
By 1943, the US Army was paying GIs $22/month -- parachute troops got an extra $5/month! Glider troops got base pay, only. Death insurance, by the US government was $10,000. You could buy a couple of houses for that much, five homes in the countryside.
In the 1970s, a Good Wage could mean $22,000 a year -- for a top manager. By 1980s all of these figures tripled. (!)
Homes that sold for $50,000 in a nice neighborhood -- Santa Monica, (1971) -- sold for $1,500,000 by 2022. (!!!)
Modern girls figure that their beau ought to be earning $100,000 a year. (The national average is $60,000 a year.)
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@ I must rebut. Though the UK did send the stuff, it actually didn't make it into battle. The Commies couldn't read the dials! The British stuff sat for MONTHS up in Murmansk -- still at the docks -- in the snow -- as Stalin & Co were too busy to send talent up there in a timely manner. Where did I find this crazy story? From the actual Russians up there -- in the port -- at the time. In their own diaries they were astounded when the British ships showed at all -- as pre-war those docks were totally inactive in the depth of Winter. So, when they showed up, there was a general panic to unload them -- while not permitting UK sailors from leaving their ships to help out. (!) Being terribly short-handed, the stevedores just pushed the goodies off the piers and to points nearby. Yes, everything became jamb packed, PDQ. With further snows, no-one could find a thing until late Spring.
When some times actually were shipped south, then came the issue with, " Who can read those dials?"
The British aid proved BIG in '42 when the stuff was used as TRAINING equipment. All of the aircraft and tanks had RADIOS. The Soviet stuff didn't. The vacuum tube plant for the Soviet state had been captured/destroyed by the Germans. It was so small, the Krauts didn't realize what they'd achieved.
The REAL UK/US aid came by way of Iran. It is the aid that turned things around at Stalingrad.
In the Winter of '41 it was the Krauts who saved Moscow. They'd destroyed their panzer punch -- back during the mud season. This was the period of starvation for the panzer troops. They had no horses. Whereas the regular horse-drawn infantry survived on horse-flesh. All of the above is to be found in the bowels of German military histories -- the diaries of the troops involved. It's NOT a flattering picture, so in all popular accounts the German generals edited it out. The number of horses EATEN is staggering. It's the reason why when the last surge to Moscow occurred, none of the troops came from the infantry army. They'd eaten their draft animals. Those divisions never recovered for the rest of the war. In 1942 Adolf went back to war with a totally different, almost horse-less, army. This explains so much about the insane march on Stalingrad. He couldn't replace all of the lost draft animals -- even though the Heer stole horses from all over Europe -- right off the farm, too. Folks were pissed. Lost German horses were replaced with Soviet boys. My own Father had to bag them and send them back to Stalin's Gulag, in 1945. The farmer and wife were weeping. Having lost their own son, now they were losing their 'step-sons.' Tears all around.
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@ The US never charged Winston for Purple Machines. (Japanese diplomatic code) Purple is how the UK knew what was going on in the Pacific. The US also, along with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Dutch East Indies provided the missing transmissions required to decode the FULL messages that Tokyo was bouncing off the Ionosphere. This tech has now been, largely, abandoned. With it, you could Ham radio -- planet wide. But, it wasn't always clear. So, to get the full transmission, you needed both repetition from the originator AND repeated reception which could occur all over the planet -- but especially well the closer to the origin. Australia has a sweet location in the Outback that can pick up signals from Hell and Heaven. It's amazing. Rhode Island had a receiver that could pick up Rommel in North Africa -- uniquely so. We gave said transmissions immediately over to Winston -- long before the US was in the soup. Naturally, Churchill lied to all and every about how he came to learn this or that. For quite a while, Enigma intercepts, etc, were labelled as coming from 'Mr. Brown,' our agent in Berlin. Heh.
This blew up. His generals REFUSED to act on timely intelligence. THEY were convinced by their staffs of yet other reasonings -- which always proved quite wrong. Winston had to keep firing generals because of this -- which historians have totally missed. The blame for these events was always ascribed to some battlefield reverses -- when the REAL reason was that they dis-obeyed Winston's 'advice.' Ultimately Winston gave in and had to come up with plan B. Not one general would ever act on the 'advice' coming from Winston -- the Gallipoli man.
Winston, Adolf and Stalin all had the same vice: they thought that they were brilliant generals. Whereas FDR, the ultimate lazy student, knew full well he was a fish out of water in military affairs. He did like boats, though. So the Pentagon ran the US war effort while allies and enemies had to suffer under delusional Big Brains.
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