Quote Originally Posted by Mobile Bay View Post
I don't know where you are getting that from, but it simply isn't true. Yes some supplies came into the USSR through Murmansk and Archangel. But that was never a whole lot compared to Soviet industrial output. Early in the war the Soviets moved many of their factories east of the Ural mountains and by the end of they war they had been producing steadily. For example the Soviets manufactured roughly 80,000 T-34 tanks during the war. Only 1400 ships or so made the arctic convoy run and those that did could never have carried anything near that many tanks.

OK, I see you've done some history research. I know Roosevelt signed a lend-lease agreement to give the Soviet Union 1 billion dollars to fight the war in October, 1941, after we had already given them lots of other supplies. We are surmising what may have happened if we hadn't helped the Soviet Union-nobody really knows. Obviously, Stalingrad was the turning point in the war.