Comments by "The Looinrims" (@looinrims) on "Why determining the Impact of Lend-Lease is so complicated" video.

  1. The question isn’t “were they useful” because of course they were the question was were they necessary? The Soviet Union was fighting for its very existence when the Nazis came knocking, so the debate goes “was lend lease something that wasn’t fully necessary to win or was it something needed to win?”
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  2. Nick Danger I’m under the belief that Lend Lease saved the USSR from economic collapse I just wanted to clarify the main point I assume your reply was trying to convince me of that, but hey now I can cite Zhukov as a believer of it, thanks for that
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  3. Russians don’t like the contradictions that exist to their view of unstoppable military might
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  4. This is fascinating to read, even with lend lease the Soviets were on the verge of organizational collapse
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  5. Here’s one word to describe it and how useful Food
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  6. “They were used in the Manchurian campaign but not extensively” DM Giangreco: “Are you sure about that?!”
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  7.  @ianwhitchurch864  Ha! It gets better for my POV, sadly we may never know, but it’s ironic that the capitalists propped up their mortal enemy of decades against an enemy who hasn’t even hit conscription age yet
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  8. Exactly my thoughts, what procurement for replacing food would they have used? The Ukrainian farmland (ie one of the two breadbaskets of the world) was overrun before the fall, there would be no food production, not on the scale an army of 5-7 million needs alongside the population who by the way are working in the Urals
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