Hade Sovjetunionen klarat av Tyskland alldeles själva?

Vad gäller den amerikanska hjälpen till Sovjetunionen spelade strategiska råvaror och framförallt transportfordon en viktigare roll än direkt krigsmateriel. Av mycket större vikt var radioapparater, aluminium, högoktanigt flygbränsle, lokomotiv, mat och lastbilar. Efter andra världskriget skickade Sovjetunionen många lånade lastbilar till Vladivostok, skrotade dem och skeppade dem tillbaka till utlånaren. Det bör nämnas att även Storbritannien skickade bistånd till Sovjetunionen, även om bidraget var av mindre storlek.

Lend-Lease
The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, (Pub.L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941)[1] was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. The aid went to the United Kingdom, China, and later the Soviet Union, Free France, and other Allied nations. It included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry. The policy was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended overnight without prior warning when the war against Japan ended. The aid was free for all countries, although goods in transit when the program ended were charged for. Some transport ships were returned to the US after the war, but practically all the items sent out were used up or worthless in peacetime. In Reverse Lend Lease, the U.S. was given no-cost leases on army and naval bases in Allied territory during the war, as well as local supplies.

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US deliveries to the Soviet Union
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In total, the U.S. deliveries through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386[41] of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans);[42] 11,400 aircraft (4,719 of which were Bell P-39 Airacobras)[43] and 1.75 million tons of food.[44]

Roughly 17.5 million tons of military equipment, vehicles, industrial supplies, and food were shipped from the Western Hemisphere to the USSR, 94% coming from the US. For comparison, a total of 22 million tons landed in Europe to supply American forces from January 1942 to May 1945. It has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat divisions in the line.[45][46]