Determining the impact of the Western Aid that was provided to the Soviet Union in the Second World War is quite controversial. This aid was provided under the Lend-Lease act, as such it is usually just called Lend-Lease. The majority of the support was provided by the United States, yet other countries like the United Kingdom and Canada aided the Soviet Union as well. Thank you to VonKickass for the Thumbnail Design! »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » paypal donation - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TFHEY4P4YU3NY » Book Wishlist https://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3LJIXNJIUXJES/ref=cm_wl_huc_view »» MERCHANDISE - SPOILS OF WAR «« » shop - https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop »» SOCIAL MEDIA «« » twitter - https://twitter.com/MilHiVisualized » facebook - https://www.facebook.com/milhistoryvisualized/ » twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/militaryhistoryvisualized » SOURCES « Boris V. Sokolov: The role of lend‐lease in Soviet military efforts, 1941–1945, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 7:3 (1994) p. 567-586 Hill, Alexander: The Red Army and the Second World War. Armies of the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2017. Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan M.: When Titans Clashed. How the Red Army stopped Hitler. Revised and Expanded Edition. University Press of Kansas: USA, 2015 Harrison, Mark: THE SOVIET ECONOMY AND RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, 1941-1945, Draft 25 August, 1993 Hill, Alexander: British Lend Lease Aid and the Soviet War Effort, June 1941 June 1942, in: The Journal of Military History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Jul., 2007), pp. 773-808 Cambridge History of the Second World War. Volume 1: Fighting the War. Cambridge University Press: UK (2015) Broadberry, Stephen; Howlett, Peter: The United Kingdom: ‘Victory at all costs’, in: Harrison, Mark (ed.): The Economics of World War II. Cambridge University Press: UK (1998), p. 43-80 Strydwolf: Lend-Lease to Soviet Union, significance, impact and myths Protocol and Area Information Staff of the U.S.S.R. Branch and the Division of Research and Reports: REPORT ON WAR AID FRUNISHED BY THE UNITED STATES TO THE U.S.S.R, November 28, 1945 Harrison, Mark: The USSR and Total War: Why Didn’t the Soviet Economy Collapse in 1942? In: Chickering, Roger (ed.); Förster, Stig (ed.); Greiner, Bernd (ed.): A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1939-1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005), p. 137-156. Tooze, Adam: The Wages of Destruction. The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Penguin Books: United Kingdom (2006). Overy, Richard: Why the Allies Won. Pimlico: London, UK (2006). Higham, Robin (ed.); Kagan, Frederick W. (ed.): The Military History of the Soviet Union. Palgrave: New York, 2002 Havlat, Denis: Western aid for the Soviet Union during World War II, Wien, 2015 (Master Thesis) » DATA CHAIN « Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. » CREDITS & SPECIAL THX « Song: Ethan Meixsell - Demilitarized Zone