Originally Posted by
SASless
Nutty....Russia borders Ukraine....Germany was a very long way from Russia and in turn the Russian Supply lines were as long as the Germans but ran in the opposite direction.
The Russians received 400,000 Trucks and Jeeps from the United States....which allowed the Russians to supply its troops and move artillery.
Yep, because the Soviets were obsessed with only building tanks, and they had very logistic vehicle production.
Along with the 400k trucks and Jeeps, the USA also sent..
- 14,000 airplanes
- 8,000 tractors
- 13,000 tanks
- 1.5 million blankets
- 15 million pairs of army boots
- 107,000 tons of cotton
- 2.7 million tons of petroleum products
- 4.5 million tons of food
There are a couple of good TV documentaries called War Factories, and they have highlighted just how crap the USSR were at making pretty much anything other than tanks, and even little UK made almost as many tanks as the USSR did.
About the only thing the USSR had in abundance which it used was human beings as cannon fodder, pretty much no different to what its doing in Ukraine 75 years later.