History 11/03/20 How much money is spent on Soviet weapons in world
According to the estimates of UN experts, made in 1945, the world collectively spent on all the wars of the first half of the XX century about 4 trillion 700 billion dollars. Of course, the most expensive was world war II 1939-1945, which cost the participants the order of 4 trillion.
the Material losses of the USSR
the Second world war was the largest massacre in the history of mankind. It was attended by 61 countries of the world (more than 80% of the world population). Directly in the fighting were involved in approximately 110 million people, of which every second is not returned.
Financial losses of the USSR consisted of funds spent on procurement of weapons and the conduct of hostilities, as well as the amount that the government was forced to allocate to the restoration of housing and infrastructure. Directly military action, according to the UN, has cost our country in 128 billion dollars in those years.
the destruction of Soviet cities was extremely high. The war destroyed 32 thousand enterprises, as well as half of all railway bridges. The damage in parts of the urban housing stock and it appeared to be impossible to calculate. Military spending of the Soviet Union was so significant that they by 1944, took up to 55% of the total annual national income. While inflation in 1945, the Soviet Union increased by four times compared to 1939.
the production of weapons, our country has spent 93 billion dollars. The money was created 120 thousand aircraft, thousand tanks 90, 360 thousand guns, 300 mortars thousand and 482 thousand different types of guns.
the Cost of Germany
More than the Soviet Union, the Second world war, spent only Nazi Germany and her allied Japan. Cumulatively, the conduct of hostilities cost them 422 billion.
Nand the weapons the Germans had spent 212 336 billion. German military enterprises produced 104 thousand aircraft, thousand tanks 65,1, 174,5 thousand guns and 82 thousand mortars. The war ate 68% of the national income of Germany. Meanwhile, inflation from 1939 to 1945 grew up in a country six times. The destruction of the city and other infrastructure Germany worth 48 billion dollars.
USA: cost and revenue
Cheaper than all of the Second world war cost the USA, which managed even to earn. As the fighting in the territory of the States was not conducted, the infrastructure losses in the country amounted to only $ 1.3 billion or 0.4% from the same loss of all other States parties.
due To the fact that most countries have purchased weapons in the United States, the level of external trade of America in the years 1939-1945 has risen 4.5 times. At the same time, its army and Navy who took part in the fighting, the US spent only in 1944, 81 billion dollars. In the same year, US spending on the war amounted to 44% of national income.
Weapons in the war USA made $ 288 billion. In the numerical indicators of the military factories established 296,1 thousands of planes, thousands of tanks 86.5; 253 thousand guns and 11 mortars.
England: on the verge of bankruptcy
the hardest hit financially had of England. If it is infrastructure the loss was small – about USD 6.8 billion, the weapons she used very heavy money for themselves.
the war in London was gone for 55.7% of the total national income, the national debt has tripled, and for the supply of arms from USA and Britain were paid until 2006. Even in the country were introduced ration cards, part of which was abolished only in 1954.
on account of the debt Britain had to give America, Jamaica, the Bahamas and several Islands in the Caribbean.
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