>” "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most impo

>” "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Stalin >” "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "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."” - Kruschev The Soviets made monumental sacrifices in the war and smashed millions of German troops. But the idea is that they did the lion’s share of the war is just silly. I don’t even know how’d you’d rank contributions. It was a group effort and without any of the major allied participants they would have faltered. https://www.rferl.org/amp/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html https://www.rferl.org/amp/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-bala...