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   Security Writer (securitywriter@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 19:01:09 JST Security Writer

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   Lend lease was hugely important to the speed of victory. Not to the victory itself.

   Russia especially would have lost many, many times more people than they did in the twilight years of the war, but they would have still pushed Germany back regardless. You need to remember, Germany, for what it’s worth, was landlocked.

   Now I’ve been using ‘Russia’ as the point of reference, when I should have been saying ‘Soviet Union’. This was intentional. The German push to acquire the ‘Sudetenland’ mean a lot of the Soviet Union was destabilised. But the Soviet Union was MASSIVE. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and touching many countries along the way, most of which did more than a little trade with neighbours.

   A war of attrition was not going to be won by Germany. It’s just counting.

   In fact, without lend lease, you could argue that Germany’s defeat would have been even more crushing as other allied forces likely wouldn’t have been able to push that quickly into Germany without lend lease.

   Making the Soviet Union ever larger, and Germany smaller. It is said that due to Germany’s betrayal of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, that Stalin actually wanted all of Germany in retaliation.

   Lend lease probably saved tens of millions of lives. But it didn’t decide the outcome.