Lend-Lease was absolutely important when it came to specific material (e.g. trucks, aviation fuel). But in total numbers it was still only 4% of Soviet War production. I don’t know who spent more money in the war (and it is irrelevant really when you look at dozens of millions of deaths), but Lend-Lease alone does not answer that question.
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KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months agoHow can they “spend more” than the US? They were literally given materiel and money by the US. The money the USSR spent was from the West.
The European war was fought with Russian troops, British intelligence, and American money. Also, there was an entire other war in the Pacific that the US fought at the same time. It’s not possible for the Soviets to have spent more, just based on that fact alone.
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Miaou@jlai.lu 4 months ago
You know Russia was also involved in the east right? God American education is hopeless
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
We’re talking about spending money on the war. The Soviets fought Japan for a period of 26 days:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Japanese_War