WAR: IN THE LONG RUN, ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID —“The Soviet Union would have def

WAR: IN THE LONG RUN, ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID

—“The Soviet Union would have defeated Hitler eventually anyway”—

As far as I know, and it’s hard to argue against, Stalin himself stated that they would have lost the war without the allies for the simple reasons:

First, that Germany succeeded in taking or destroying most of Russia’s industry.

Secondly, while Americans supplied only 12K tanks, she supplied the vast majority of jeeps, trucks, communication gear, that gave Russia her communications and mobility.

Third the allies provided more than half of Russian explosives. Plus copper and aluminum.

Once germany had france she had people, industry, and resources, greater than russia and britain combined.

Another case of: “It’s the economy, stupid”.

That the west overplays her importance in defeating germany is one thing. That Russia could have done it alone is extremely unlikely. That americans could have taken moscow and collapsed the soviet union is a relative certainty. That the Anglo constraint of German expansion into eastern europe was the cause of the fall of the west, and the destruction of western civlization is unquestionable. The germans were saving the west in both wars, and the anglos were by consequence the fall of the west – and remain so today.