>>826919>Absolute codswallop proven by the fact that on paper the Tiger and Panther tanks were "better quality" than the T-34-76. This means nothing IRL because the German production was gummed up by overcomplicated tech being rushed into service with teething issues rather than focusing on mass production.Irrelevant to Lend-Lease's qualitative nature. Even if German tanks were superior on paper, that says nothing about whether the USSR needed Allied aluminum, fuel, trucks, or explosives. Category error. The quality of German tanks versus Soviet tanks is a separate question from whether Lend-Lease provided crucial qualitative inputs to the Soviet war economy.
>The totality of Lend-Lease food production wouldn't feed a division for a week, let alone the whole country.Incorrect, and bobody said the aid was supposed to feed "the whole country."
>This is even more laughable because the majority of Lend Lease came at the end of 1943.And? The aid in 1942, while not peak levels, was still critical. Operation Uranus relied on Lend-Lease, and its success was exacerbated by the fact several German mechanized divisions were diverted to Western Europe. Regardless, contrary to most perceptions, the Soviets were not "winning" in 1943. At best, 1943 was a bloody stalemate with the Soviets taking abysmally high casualties. Lend-Lease absolutely gave the Soviets enough of edge to just barely halt Germany's onslaught, and then eventually crush them when the aid came in full force by late 1943 and early 1944. In the first quarter of 1943, Allied food supplies supplied 17% of the total calories consumed by the Red Army. To claim this played a negligible role in holding the Germans back is disingenuous. A lot of the Red Army's operations from 1943 onwards, including Kursk and later Soviet offensives, were heavily reliant on Lend-Lease and even with them the Soviets took at least 3-4 times the losses the Germans did. Take Kursk for example, which is often cited as a Soviet "victory." The causality ratio reached as high as 1 to 12 (1 to 4 on average) in favor of Germany, which is almost unheard of. The Red Army performed so poorly that they would spend the entire Cold War covering up their abysmal performance by inflating German casualties and deflating their own. Cons
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