USSR:
-Starts WW2 by invading Poland WITH the nazis.
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_cen…
-Gets blindsided by obvious nazi betrayal.
-Forces young men into combat with no weapons, they die by the millions because communism incapable of mass production, and devalues human life.
-American steps in with lend lease providing:
$11.3 Billion ($200 Billion Today)
Assets
~400,000 jeeps & trucks
~14,000 airplanes
~8,000 tractors
~13,000 tanks
~350 Locomotives
~1,640 Train Cars
~500,000 tons rails
~1.5 million blankets
~15 million pairs of army boots
~107,000 tons of cotton
~2.7 million tons of petrol products (5.9 Billion Pounds)
~4.5 million tons of food (9.9 Billion Pounds)
~guns
~ammunition
~explosives
~copper
~steel
~aluminum
~medicine
~field radios
~radar tools
~and other items
"The most important things in this war are machines. The United States ... is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war." - Stalin
-Survives WW2
-Eventually collapses under the cultural weight of blue jeans and Metallica.
Fast forward 80 years:
“Omg communism is the best look. They killed the most nazi” - some “communist” living in America tweeting from a fucking iPhone
80% of the Nazi death toll in this picture was thanks to the Red Army. But the movies sure do love to portray the Americans who joined the war late as the saviors lmao.