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Originally Posted by spidge
Hi Spidge !
I don't understand what this is ..... who gave the items on this list to Russia ??
Annie
Australia 
Lend Lease to Russia WW2
I cannot remember posting this on this forum however the amounts/numbers still amaze me.
Complete List of Lend Lease to Russia including atomic materials
Hi Spidge !
I don't understand what this is ..... who gave the items on this list to Russia ??
Annie
Australia Sent by the US to Russia 1941-1944.
Britain and Canada also sent huge amounts of military equipment.
This is the summary at the end of the link's page.
SUMMARY
MUNITIONS $4,651,582,000 NON-MUNITIONS 4,826,084,000 ---------------- Total 9,477,666,000 Note: the figure of $11 billion includes services as well as goods furnished. The U.S. Government has never released detailed reports on what was sent in Lend-Lease, so Major Jordan's data, gleaned from the Russians' own manifests, is the only public record. More than one-third of Lend-Lease sent was illegal under the terms of the act which specifically prohibited "goods furnished for relief and rehabilitation purposes."
It should be kept in mind that Russia was an ally of Japan throughout the war, that it had been the ally of Hitler during the first two years of the war, that its division of Poland with Germany started the war, that it was an agressive imperialist force that attacked Finland and subverted the Baltic states as well, that it had announced that it intended to take over the world and that most of the aid sent in 1945 was sent after Stalin's February speech in which he said he would continue the war but against the United States.
Franklin Roosevelt's alter ego and Lend-Lease administrator Harry L. Hopkins, a KGB agent, declared to Russia before a crowd at Madison Square Garden on June 22, 1942, that: "We are determined that nothing shall stop us from sharing with you all that we have." He was not joking.
Last edited by spidge; 12-09-2008 at 03:43 PM.
Australia This is a collective snapshot of the numbers supplied by the allied nations to Russia!
The numbers are just mind boggling.
427,000 trucks
13,000 combat vehicles
2000 ordinance vehicles
35,000 motor bikes
Petroleum products 2,670,000 tons
Food 4,478,000 tons food
Australia You can chuck in a few thousand aircraft as well - Spits, Hurris, Hampdens (!), Kittyhawks, Airacobras, Kingcobras, Bostons, Mitchells, um...
Australia The numbers are huge.
The sad part is that most Russians who have been on the forums do not believe the West helped in anyway because they did not start the second front in 1943 instead of 1944. (This does not include Italy of course)
They do not accept the contribution of the 55,000+ Commonwealth or 26,000 US airmen deaths as "assisting Russia.
Look at these numbers:
From the US:
6,430 planes
3,734 tanks
10 mine sweepers
82 smaller boats
210,000 automobiles
3,000 anti aircraft guns
1,111 oerlikon guns
17,000 motor bikes
991 million cartridges
1.2 million Km telephone cable
245,000 military telephones
257 million oil refinery,electrical equipment
5.2 million boots
2 million tons of food
Shipped to Russia June 22 1941 to April 30th 1944 From UK
5,800 Planes
4,292 Tanks
12 minesweepers
103,000 tons rubber
6,000 machine tools
Shipped from Canada
1188 Tanks
842 Armoured cars
One million shells
36,000 tons Aluminium
208,000 tons grain
Australia One wonders what the result would have been if this equipment wasn't shipped there. Combined, it's an impressive arsenal and any country with just that equipment would have made a serious contribution.
Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 12-09-2008 at 06:31 PM.
Senior Member
United States That number is crazy!!! I never would have guessed that the number was that high.
Last edited by war hawk; 12-09-2008 at 06:29 PM. Reason: needed to add
Australia Though there are doubters in Russia to the benefit of this aid, Zhukov openly stated that without lend lease in 1943, Russia would have been defeated.
This is pretty amazing Geoff ....... Britain paid back in 2006 .. did the Russians ??
Lend-Lease was a critical factor in the eventual success of the Allies in World War II particularly in the early years when the United States was not directly involved and the entire burden of the fighting fell on other nations, notably those of the Commonwealth and, after June 1941, the Soviet Union. Although Pearl Harbor and the Axis Declarations of War brought the US into the war in December 1941, the task of recruiting, training, equipping U.S. forces and transporting them to war zones could not be completed immediately. Through 1942, and to a lesser extent 1943, the other Allies continued to be responsible for most of the fighting and the supply of military equipment under Lend-Lease was a significant part of their success In 1943-44, about a fourth of all British munitions came through Lend-Lease. Aircraft (in particular transport aircraft) comprised about one-fourth of the shipments to Britain, followed by food, land vehicles and ships
Even after the United States forces in Europe and the Pacific began to reach full-strength in 1943–1944, Lend-Lease continued. Most remaining allies were largely self-sufficient in front line equipment (such as tanks and fighter aircraft) by this stage, but Lend-Lease provided a useful supplement in this category even so, and Lend-Lease logistical supplies (including trucks, jeeps, landing craft and, above all, the Douglas C-47 transport aircraft) were of enormous assistance.
Much of the aid can be better understood when considering the economic distortions caused by the war. Most belligerent powers cut back on production of nonessentials severely, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military/industrial economy.
For example, the USSR was highly dependent on trains, yet the desperate need to produce weapons meant that only about 92 locomotives were produced in the USSR during the entire war. In this context, the supply of 1,981 US locomotives can be better understood. Likewise, the Soviet air force was enhanced by 18,700 aircraft, which amounted to about 14% of Soviet aircraft production (19% for military aircraft)
Although most Red Army tank units were equipped with Soviet-built tanks, their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of US-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge ¾ ton and Studebaker 2.5 ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front.[7] US supplies of telephone cable, aluminium, canned rations and fur boots were also critical, the latter providing a crucial advantage in the winter defence of Moscow
Lend Lease was a critical factor that brought the US into the war, especially on the European front. Hitler cited the Lend-Lease program and its significance in aiding the Allied war effort when he declared war on the US on 11 December 1941
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