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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?)
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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!)
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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)
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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!)
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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 (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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