@HyperboreanWave @dubbub @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @Elliptica @plotinus_enjoyer @BowsacNoodle You're forgetting the USSR lost countless tons of equipment during the opening of Barbarossa. They lost factories too.

The USSR also needed American fuel to launch Operation Uranus.

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>It remains no less true that mounting a mobile-flanking operation as ambitious as Uranus would not have been possible without lend-lease supplies-from seventy thousand trucks and jeeps to half a million tons of American aviation and motor fuel and lubricants-all of which was so crucial that shortages of these very items forced Zhukov to postpone his launch by ten days.