Re: Eastern front : won from the start ?
Some figures I gathered back in 2003 from the books and net. This is in the earlier discussions on the lend lease.All are quotes from sites or books.:
The Soviet Union ended the Second World War by having over 650.000 trucks available for use. Of those, 58% were Soviet in origin, 33% British or U.S. and the remaining percentage captured from the Germans.
Lend-lease aid amounted to approximately 10-12% of the total Soviet war production effort. While this does not seem like a significant amount, having 10% more key supplies available could make the difference between holding the line to going on the offensive.
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Soviet historians have typically denigrated the Allied efforts to supply the Soviet Union with war material as paltry in comparison with her own production and that it was not essential to the Soviet victory. In armored fighting vehicles this is somewhat true, in aircraft less true and in raw and semi-finished industrial materials this is a bold-faced lie.
Railroad rails
Allied Proportion 92.7%
Aviation Fuel
Allied Deliveries 59%
Automotive Fuel
Allied Proportion 2.5%
Locomotives
Allied Proportion 81.6%
Rail cars
Allied Proportion 80.7%
Explosives
Allied Proportion 33%
Copper Ore
Allied Proportion 45.2%
Aluminum
Allied Proportion 55.5%
Tires
Allied Proportion 30.1%
Machine Tools
Allied Proportion 27.9%
Sugar
Allied Proportion 29.5%
Meat
Allied Proportion 15.1%
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Last edited by Kai-Petri; May 30th, 2007 at 01:31 PM..
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