WWII- Was America Essential To Soviet Victory?

the soviets cannot mobilize nearly as many men because they will need more people in farming and factories

even small stuff takes a lot of people to produce and the russians were dependent on the americans relieving pressure on fine items so they could focus on building as many t-34's and rocket launchers as humanly possible

look even at their telephone wire... domestically produced telephone wire in Russia of the period was complete crap and was not waterproof; kind of hard to direct mobile operations everytime the telephone switchboards fry out when it rains no? to say nothing of the garbage radios they were installing in their tanks and fighters; scary shit

one has to keep in mind that Germany occupied their best farmland for 3 years, it's not impossible that the knock on effects from not getting food from the west force Russia to collapse or at least sue for peace

put those materials back in the US column and we easily field another 40 field divisions (at least 6 full armored divisions too) and given that American divisions; indexed for attachments were 3x as strong as heer formations; the US would bring massive material and manpower advantage to fight the germans on top of bombing Germany into the stoneage (maybe deploying the B-29 to Europe where it could flatten German cities in a way Harris never dreamed of)
 
Soviet mobility, both strategic and tactical, was a direct result of Lend Lease locomotives and trucks. There is no doubt that LL only became strategically decisive at a point in which the Soviet Union could no longer LOSE the war, yet I also don't believe that absent LL, the Soviets could have WON the war, at least not in the same manner as IOTL. Stalemate on the Polish border? Sure. The Red Army in Berlin ahead of the Western Allies? No way.
 
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