>>The Russian was wide-eyed in wonderment of a country that could field that much equipment on two fronts.
While the Soviets built a lot of armor and fielded immense armies, the amount of equipment, raw materials, and food we sent them was staggering, especially since we were also supplying our own forces and considerable parts of the Free World.
Lend Lease to Russia
From Major Jordan’ Diaries
(NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1952)
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/lend.html
Yeah, Jordan had a TON of stuff on how we helped create the USSR’s power.
I remember one article in which he said he witnessed US currency printing plates that were shipped to them in Germany, I believe. Said the Russians were printing bucks by the cartload and using them to pay their soldiers. The Reds would put inch-thick stacks of $10 and $1 dollar bills on the table and the soldiers would walk by and pick up a stack. When Jordan remarked about the 10s and singles, the Russian officer said that some soldiers could read American words and always went for the $10 stack.
This is so off-the-wall I can hardly believe it because of the ink and paper problems, but I have read of other similar rip-offs.