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by lukan 22 days ago
"Russian willingness to throw bodies at the fight."

Russia also build some tanks while being invaded, ~90k at the end of the war outcompeting german output at 3:1 (I suppose they are included in your allied 276k number?)

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with the help of US industrial advisors who helped them set up factories / production lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrclztGCg6M is a decent watch, though really only tells the "US out produced everyone" part of the WWII story.

I recall seeing a better article that talked about WWII tank production but I can't find it right now.

The USSR was also able to protect most of their factories from bombing raids by moving them to the Urals. Germany and Japan never had that luxury.