To: Paladin2
Did we build and send Russia any of those T34 tanks as part of lend lease against the Germans in WW2?
13 posted on
05/09/2024 7:56:02 AM PDT by
desertsolitaire
(Doomed to be Cassandra-like?)
To: desertsolitaire
Russians built those on their own. Lend-Lease may have helped with the production.
In fact, a German general who saw the T-34 for the first time, remarked that if the Soviets could mass produce it, Germany would lose the war, and this was when the Germans were already halfway to Moscow.
16 posted on
05/09/2024 7:58:12 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: desertsolitaire
They defaulted on their Lend Lease bill.
35 posted on
05/09/2024 8:32:11 AM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: desertsolitaire
The short answer is “no”, but we did send them resources and materials that facilitated their tank production. We also sent American trucks and tanks. The Russians generally liked the M4 Sherman, assigning them to Red Army ‘Guards’ formations.
52 posted on
05/09/2024 9:55:03 AM PDT by
Thunder 6
(Panzer, los geht's!)
To: desertsolitaire
We did supply them with some Sherman tanks, but Russia had its own steel manufacturing and tank factories in WWII. When Hitler invaded Russia, Stalin had them dismantled and moved them by rail nearer to the Urals. We also sent them train engines and perhaps rail cars. Here's an article about the military machinery that Britain and the U.S. supplied to Russia:
What British and U.S. hardware helped the Red Army in World War II?
64 posted on
05/09/2024 11:25:30 AM PDT by
mass55th
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