| > is that the US won the 2nd World war Without US manufacturing capacity things would have gone differently. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease Khrushchev: > "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs.[1] "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." * [1] http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/khruschev1/28.html * https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balanc... Apparently something like one-third of the tanks during the Battle of Moscow were British: * https://doi.org/10.1080/13518040903355794 |