History 12/03/20 Which goods supplied to the allies under lend-lease to the USSR
About the help of allies of the USSR during the Second world war to talk a lot is not accepted. However, she was, and was considerable. And not only in the framework of lend-lease. The Soviet troops delivered food, medicines, military equipment.
As is known, from love to hate. Especially in politics, where it is permissible to smile at those who yesterday denounced as a fiend. Here we are, if we open the newspaper “Pravda” in 1941 (until June 22) I immediately know what the Americans and British were bad. Starved his own people and waged war in Europe, then as Chancellor of the German people Adolf Hitler only protected.
Oh, and before I could even find the words that “fascism helps the growth of class consciousness of the working class”.
And then began to sharply good…
But here came June 22, 1941, and is literally next day “Pravda” published reports that Winston Churchill promised the USSR, military assistance, and the President of the United States unfroze Soviet deposits in American banks, frozen after the war with Finland. And that’s all! Articles about hunger among British workers disappeared in an instant, and Hitler from the “Chancellor of the German nation” was transformed into an Ogre.
the Convoy “dervish” and others
of Course, we don’t know about all those backroom negotiations that took place at that time; even declassified correspondence between Stalin and Churchill all the nuances of this complex period of our common history will not open. But there is evidence showing that helping the Anglo-American allies, the Soviet Union began to exert, if not immediately, then in a sufficiently timely manner. On August 12, 1941, from the Bay of Loch ewe (UK) released convoy “dervish”.
On the transports of the first convoy “dervish” August 31, 1941 in the Arkhangelsk were delivered ten thousand tons of rubber, about four thousand deep bOMG one of the magnetic mines, fifteen fighters of the “hurricane”, also 524 military pilots of the 151-th of the wing of two squadrons of the Royal air force of great Britain.
Later in the USSR arrived pilots, even from Australia. Just between August 1941 and may 1945 there were 78 convoys (although between July and September 1942, and March and November 1943, the convoys did not go). A total of about 1400 merchant ships delivered in the framework of the lend-lease important war material to the USSR.
85 merchant vessels and 16 warships of the Navy of great Britain (2 cruisers, 6 destroyers and 8 other escort ships) were lost. And it is only the Northern route, because the cargo flow went through Iran, via Vladivostok, and aircraft from the United States directly was driven to Siberia with Alaska. Well, then all the same “Pravda” reported that in honor of the victories of the red Army and the conclusion of agreements between the USSR and great Britain the British are deploying festivities.
Not only convoys!
the Soviet Union received help from allies, not only by lend-lease. In the United States was organized by the “Committee of Russian aid in the war” (Russia’s War Relief).
“On the collected money, the Committee purchased and sent the red Army, the Soviet people medicines, medical supplies and equipment, food, clothing. During the war, the Soviet Union had provided assistance worth more than half a billion dollars.” A similar Committee under the leadership of the wife of Churchill acted in England, and he also purchased for the assistance of the USSR medicine and food.
When “Pravda” wrote the truth!
on 11 June 1944, the newspaper “Pravda” placed significant material to the entire band: “On the supply of Soviet Union weapons, strategic raw materials, industrial equipment and food United States, Britain and Canada”, and it immediately was reprinted in all the Soviet Newspapers down to the local Newspapers and even a separate tank armies.
it details coalsalesü how many things we were sent and how many loads in tons of floating sea at the time of release of the newspaper! Listed not only tanks, guns and planes, but also rubber, copper, zinc, rails, flour, electric motors and presses, gantry cranes and industrial diamonds!
Military shoes to 15 million pairs, 6491 cutting machine, and much more. I wonder what the message was done the exact division of how many purchased for cash, i.e. until the adoption of the programme of lend-lease, and how much is sent. By the way, exactly what in the beginning of the war many were bought for cash and gave rise to of still prevailing opinion that all lend-lease came to us for money and for gold. No, many were paid in “reverse lend-ysis” – raw materials, however, the calculation was postponed until the end of the war because everything was destroyed in the course of military operations, was not subject to payment!
Well, why such information was needed at this time – understandable. Good PR is always a good thing! On the one hand, Soviet citizens learned how much we just put on the other – the same thing found out in fact the Germans and those well, just couldn’t cover the sadness.
How these figures can be trusted? Obviously, that is possible. After all, if they contain incorrect data, then barely German intelligence would have discovered, although some indicators, like she could announce the promotion and everything else and, of course, Stalin, giving permission to publish this information, could not fail to understand!
both quantity And quality!
In Soviet times, the equipment, supplied under lend-lease, had accepted blame. But… it should read the same “Truth” and in particular article famous Aviator Gromov about the American and British planes, articles about the same British tanks “Matilda”, to be sure – in the war years all this was estimated is not so, as after its end!
how can you evaluate a powerful press, which stamped turret for T-34 tanks, American drill with corundum tips or industrial diamonds, which the Soviet industrylaziness is not produced at all?! So the quantity and quality of supplies, as well as the participation of foreign technical experts, sailors and airmen was very noticeable. Well, and then it intervened in politics, the post-war situation, and everything that was in the war, well, only one stroke of the pen of the steering immediately became bad!
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