The American industries defeated the nazis in World War II.
The Soviet Union would not have defeated their former partners on the Eastern front without American and British support.
Spoiler: Today, 8 May, is European Victory Day. On this day 1945, Nazi Germany capitulated to the Allies. Soon after the war, the Soviet Union began to falsify the history and its cooperation with the Nazis as documented in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The cooperation went further than division of countries between the two countries, they also cooperated by trading with each other. The parties entered into a Credit Agreement 1939 and an Economic Agreement 1940 Soviet Union shipped food, fuel, and raw materials which the Nazi army used on the Western Front and in the Battle of Great Britain. Soviet got German industrial goods and weapons(!) in return. Despite the fact that Soviet goods were used by the German air force to bomb cities in Great Britain, Great Britain took part in the American shipments of arms, ammunition, and equipment to Soviet after Operation Barbarossa. Without that help, the Soviet would not have been able to defeat the Nazis on the Eastern front. The Allies, and especially the American military industries won World War II.
Polish officers executed by the Red Army in the Katyn Massacre.
Photo: Yad Vashem, Levande Historia
Both Stalin and Chruschev confessed that Soviet would not have defeated the Nazis without the help from the USA.
Both Stalin and Chruschev acknowledged that the Soviet could not have won against the Nazis without the help from USA. Stalin thanked Roosevelt in a letter to Roosevelt in 1941. Even though it was, at that time, early days, Stalin wrote:
“Your decision, Mr. President, to give the Soviet Union an interest-free credit of $1 billion in the form of materiel supplies and raw materials has been accepted by the Soviet government with heartfelt gratitude as urgent aid to the Soviet Union in its enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”
During the Tehran Conference in 1943, when it was clear what difference the American aid had made, Stalin said at a dinner toast
“The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.”
And, in his memoires, Chruschev wrote that
If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler’s Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me.
The Lend-Lease shipments began in the Spring of 1941. The United States provided weapons, provisions, and raw materials to countries fighting Germany and Japan -- primarily, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China. In all, the United States shipped $50 billion ($608 billion in 2020 money) worth of materiel under the program, including $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union. In addition, much of the $31 billion worth of aid sent to the United Kingdom was also passed on to the Soviet Union via convoys through the Barents Sea to Murmansk.
USA sent Jeeps, trucks, airplanes, tanks, clothes, gas, food, and even a whole factory to the Soviet.
The United States provided the Soviet Union with
400,000 jeeps and trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
More than 1.5 million blankets
15 million pairs of army boots
107,000 tons of cotton
2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks and tanks)
4.5 million tons of food
USA also sent guns, ammunition, explosives, copper, steel, aluminum, medicine, field radios, radar tools, books and other items. The Soviet also received an entire Ford Company tire factory, which made tires for military vehicles, from the USA.
From 1941 through 1945, the U.S. sent $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in 2016 dollars, in goods and services to the Soviets.
The Great Britain sent aircraft, ships, tanks, vehicles, clothes, food and equipment to the Soviet who had sent fuel and gun powder to help the Nazis in the Battle of Great Britain
The British shipments to Soviet following the Anglo-Soviet Agreement, amounted to
7,411 aircraft (>3,000 Hurricanes and >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 (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing)
1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada)
1,721 motorcycles
£1.15bn ($1.55bn) 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 boots
according to Wikipedia and the sources mentioned in the Lend-Lease article.
The American industries won the war against Nazi Germany.
In the beginning of the war, the US Army ranked thirty-ninth in the world and still used horses to pull artillery. By the end of the war, the US industries produced two thirds of the Allies’ arms and equipment. Indirectly, it produced even more as large parts of the Soviet production was made in factories by machines that US engineers had helped to build and construct. During the first five year plan, Soviet imported factories and machines to increase industrial production. Foreign experts, especially American, supervising Soviet workers and engineers, made sure that the factories began to produce before turning them over to Soviet managers. The imports of capital and education also meant that knowledge and technology was imported from abroad.
Also intellectual capital was imported from the USA by Soviet. Taylorism was introduced by the Communist party. Taylor’s book The Principles of Scientific Management, was translated and used by Soviet managers to monitor the production and workers closely during the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Thus, the Soviet increased its weapon producion with US capital goods, technology and management skills.