Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. The US provided insane amounts of lend-lease war materials to the Soviet Union, as did the UK and Canada. The US built 20% of the Soviet Air Force's fighters, and 30% of their bombers, while providing 57.8% of their aviation fuel. The US also provided the Russians with 501,660 tactical wheeled and tracked vehicles, including 77,972 Jeeps, 151,053 1.5 t trucks and 200,622 2.5 t trucks.  We also sent medical supplies, food, clothing, rifles, SMGs, and industrial metals like aluminum to support their production efforts.
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  2.  @Sundara229  I see Lend Lease just as instrumental in post-war Soviet industry and war material development, if not more than its contribution to the war itself. In addition to US and French automobile and firearms technology sales before the 1917 Revolution, along with Lend Lease, Russia was able to have tens of thousands of samples of aircraft, radios, trucks, and tanks from which to learn from when reverse-engineering their own versions in the late 1940s-onward. They were using antiquated designs and production methods well into the 1990s as a result. It's a very poor nation considering the land mass they have, that can either focus national resources on domestic infrastructure or peripheral security with its laundry list of neighbors, but never has been able to do both. This has been true whether Tzars, Communists, "Reformers", or Kleptocrats have been in power. Geography's curse...
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