I think it's fairly widely acknowledged among those with any interest in history? Reading popular historians like Antony Beevor would leave it in no doubt. It

I think it's fairly widely acknowledged among those with any interest in history? Reading popular historians like Antony Beevor would leave it in no doubt. It's also interesting that the Soviet Union would probably not have been able to put up such a fight without the massive shipments of aid from the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor