Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-4660173-20150118150547

Lordganon wrote: Not a "claim" when it is the truth, and your head is too far in the sand to see it.

What part of the amounts and items being irrelevant made no sense to you? Simple English. All not having more ready access to those items does is slow them down. This is long-proven fact. A USSR with a worse supply situation still overruns the Germans, just takes longer as they have to make, repair, and bring up their own supplies. For pete's sake, this is the same as all other Russian wars in that regard.

The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, (Pub.L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941) was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, Great Britain, the Republic of China, The Polish Underground Goverment and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.

It was signed into law on March 11, 1941 and ended in September 1945. In general the aid was free, although some hardware (such as ships) was returned after the war. In return, the U.S. was given leases on bases in Allied territory during the war.

A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $656 billion today) worth of supplies were shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S. In all, $31.4 billion went to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to the other Allies. Reverse Lend-Lease policies comprised services such as rent on air bases that went to the U.S., and totaled $7.8 billion; of this, $6.8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth.

The terms of the agreement provided that the materiel was to be used until time for their return or destruction. In practice very little equipment was returned. Supplies that arrived after the termination date were sold to Britain at a large discount for £1.075 billion, using long-term loans from the United States. Canada operated a similar program called Mutual Aid that sent a loan of $1 billion and $3.4 billion in supplies and services to Britain and other Allies. The United States did not charge for aid supplied under this legislation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease