• nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I’ll always wonder what the gradbears make of this but I’ll never know 'coz they banned me for bringing it up

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      11 months ago

      Interesting, because Stalin himself said they’d have lost without lend lease. It’s just not debatable.

      Fun Fact: most trucks in the Red Army during the war were American made. While the Allies were a bit leery of making tanks and planes for Stalin, cars and trucks were something we were, at the time, the best in the world at mass manufacturing, so America basically made all the trucks for the Soviets, which let them pour related production into their own tanks (which were better anyways tbh)

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        11 months ago

        Zhukov and Khrushchev also agreed that Lend Lease was crucial, along with many more members of Stalin’s inner circle.

        (which were better anyways tbh)

        Why do you consider Soviet tanks to be better than their American counterparts?

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          11 months ago

          The T-34 are usually considered the best all around tank of WW2, especially if you are accounting for things like production ease.

          On paper their performance was relatively similar when accounting for mobility, armour, and fire power. The only real advantage of the T34 was that it had a lower profile and did better in the snow.

          The real magic behind the T34 was the rate at which they could be pumped out and still go toe to toe with most anything on the field. They could slap together a T34 in 9000 man hours of work, compared to the 48,000 hours needed to make a Sherman.