Then why did both Stalin and Khrushchev say it was important for the victory ? Sorry but I’ve read tons of AskHistorians answers about this. I recommend you go

Then why did both Stalin and Khrushchev say it was important for the victory ? Sorry but I’ve read tons of AskHistorians answers about this. I recommend you go there and search this same question. The Soviets needed that 11%. My understanding is that a lot of it helped mechanise the Soviet Army, ie trucks were delivered in large quantities. From Claude I got this: “In Khrushchev's memoirs, he recalled Stalin saying in a private conversation that without American aid through Lend-Lease, the Soviet Union "would not have been able to cope because we lost so much of our industry." Khrushchev himself wrote that Lend-Lease was "of utmost importance" and that "we would have been in a difficult position without it." “