Thanks for sharing. It’s an irony to see the large red letters in the picture of the Chernobyl sports hall. They read “pobeda”, which means “victory”.
Lend Lease Aid to Soviet Union
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14,000 aircraft
6,000 tanks
363,000 trucks
1/3rd of soviet military vehicles
57% of their aviation fuel
53% of all explosives
half the wartime supply of copper, aluminum, and rubber tires
56% of the railroad tracks
1,900 locomotives compared to 92 produced domestically
11,000 railway cars compared to the 1,000 produced domestically
Enough food to provide an estimated half-pound per soviet soldier, per day, for the entire length of the war- Lend Lease aid to the Soviet Union during WW2.
Source: Russia’s War by Richard Overy
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Holy *&(@
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And that’s just what made it there!
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Don’t forget non military equipment like 20,000 boots.
Gun Powder for 54R using 30-06 powder.
Plus a full re equip Pacific Fleet being able to conduct naval invasions. -
That’s 5 IPCs per turn? :-D
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I’d say it would be 10 IPC based on the scale AnA does.
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And 10 IPCs would help balance the game OOB too, if SZ125 was not the only gateway to it.
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@wittmann:
And 10 IPCs would help balance the game OOB too, if SZ125 was not the only gateway to it.
Well if you want to do historical set up, you would need three paths, one from UK to Archangel, one from Persia going up north, and the last from Alaska to Far East but this one must be only non military equipment.
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@Caesar:
I’d say it would be 10 IPC based on the scale AnA does.
D6
Max LL 10 icps per turn.1. All destroyed
2. Half gets through
3. Half gets through
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British lend lease:
Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR:
3,000+ Hurricanes
4,000+ other aircraft
27 naval vessels
5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada)
5,000+ anti-tank guns
4,020 ambulances and trucks
323 machinery trucks
1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada )
1,721 motorcycles
£1.15bn worth of aircraft engines
1,474 radar sets
4,338 radio sets
600 naval radar and sonar sets
Hundreds of naval guns
15 million pairs of bootsNot bad…
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Also with UK lend lease, it should be noted that some of those destroyers transferred were Lend Lease US destroyers.
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Interesting:
It’s funny you brought that up because I can’t tell you how many arguments I have had with people who thinks that Lend Lease didn’t do anything for the allied war effort in the end.
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A mix of lend lease, action in North Africa, naval pressure, air pressure and commando raids. Add to this the fight in Greece, Crete, the battle of the Atlantic.
In my opinion without Allied presence the Soviet Union collapses.
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A mix of lend lease, action in North Africa, naval pressure, air pressure and commando raids. Add to this the fight in Greece, Crete, the battle of the Atlantic.
In my opinion without Allied presence the Soviet Union collapses.
Watch out, some people here to try to argue that the Soviet Union won in Europe which is incorrect.
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@Caesar:
A mix of lend lease, action in North Africa, naval pressure, air pressure and commando raids. Add to this the fight in Greece, Crete, the battle of the Atlantic.
In my opinion without Allied presence the Soviet Union collapses.
Watch out, some people here to try to argue that the Soviet Union won in Europe which is incorrect.
They probably spent 70% of the effort, but it doesn’t mean they could have won alone. Think about the troops deployed on the Atlantic wall, the air battles over Europe. The situation on the Eastern front in 1942-1943 would be quite different…
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Well I hate the argument that is made because the Red Army destroyed Germany in the east and captured Berlin which obviously is true but it doesn’t take into account all the effort it took destroying their navy, “stopping” them from invading UK, all the help and supplies. I take the real argument, if you say the Red Army destroyed Germany by itself, then why did Stalin want UK and US to go from liberating Greece to begging them to open a huge front? The answer is that everyone who fought, was needed.
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The 60,000 aircraft shut down (not mentioning the slow down of German air production, pilot training, fuel production and impact on other industries). That alone appears quite decisive.
One million personel tied down to man about 50,000 AA guns. An average of 5,000 shells were needed to shut down a bomber. Just the cost of producing the shells amounted for a significant fraction of the cost of producing the 4 engines bombers, and we know the considerable cost of UK and US strategic bombers.
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Remember, it took a while to know this:
25% of Lend came to Archangel, 25% via Persia ( that’s why Soviets and British invaded Iran), and 50% from Soviet Far east ( Vladivostok)
so if your modeling ocean bound supply routes ( convoy system) this is the division of total aid
For example is using the 10 ipc figure, that’s 5 via the pacific route, 2-3 Persia, 3 white sea
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It always amazed me that the Japs would let US Lend Lease material sail to Vladivostok
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