delta7: [The Ukies are ones who have sold much off, much written about this. Pull up Kadyrov’s videos of captured US\western AT’4’s, N Laws and Stingers from Marioupol. Truck loads.
Kadyrov was very grateful, promised the old man he would return them..I am sure that video has been pulled long ago.]
Also included 3,000 locomotives built for Russian gauge, rolling stock, 100 octane aviation fuel. The soft skin vehicles more than anything else we’re decisive in the Red Army’s victory. It gave mobility the Germans with their equine movers could not match.
When the Nazis invaded Russia, Stalin dismantled a crapload of tank and other military production factories, along with steel production equipment and the heavy machinery that went with it by rail to safer sectors in Siberia and the Caucasus, where they were rebuilt so production could begin as soon as possible. 1300 factories were packed up from the northern industrial sectors and carried east by train into the Urals, Central Asia or Siberia. I watched a British TV series called “War Factories.” I believe it consisted of four seasons, and they covered the evacuation of the buildings, and machinery by rail. It was an amazing feat. I had never heard about it before. I know the U.S. provided many train engines and rail cars during the war.