[Bacvanin]

Malo cu mozda skrenuti sa teme, ali ipak mislim da je itekako vazno da se uzme u obzir ne samo to da je Staljin zahtevao od zap. saveznika da otvore drugi front u Evropi, vec i kolika je za sovjetsku pobedu u ratu bila znacajna i materijalna pomoc koju je SSSR dobio od zap. saveznika. Bas citam na jednom forumu raspravu na tu temu, pa evo nekih interesantnih podataka:

- Preko severnih ruskih luka Murmanska i Arhangelska su samo do kraja 1941. Ameri i Englezi dovezli oko 3.000 aviona, 4.000 tenkova, desetak hiljada drugih vozila i ogromnu kolicinu municije, opreme i hrane.

- Podaci za ceo period rata bi trebali biti sledeci:
Aircraft.............................14,795
Tanks.................................7,056
Jeeps................................51,503
Trucks..............................375,883
Motorcycles..........................35,170
Tractors..............................8,071
Guns..................................8,218
Machine guns........................131,633
Explosives..........................345,735 tons
Building equipment valued.......$10,910,000
Railroad freight cars................11,155
Locomotives...........................1,981
Cargo ships..............................90
Submarine hunters.......................105
Torpedo boats...........................197
Ship engines..........................7,784
Food supplies.....................4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment.......$1,078,965,000
Noniron metals......................802,000 tons
Petroleum products................2,670,000 tons
Chemicals...........................842,000 tons
Cotton..........................106,893,000 tons
Leather..............................49,860 tons
Tires.............................3,786,000
Army boots.......................15,417,000 pairs


I jos sa vikipedije:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease


US deliveries to USSR

In total, the US deliveries through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks); 11,400 aircraft and 1.75 million tons of food.[23]


British deliveries to the USSR

In June 1941 within weeks of the German invasion of the USSR the first British aid convoy set off along the dangerous Arctic sea routes to Murmansk arriving in September. It was carrying 40 Hawker Hurricanes along with 550 mechanics and pilots of No. 151 Wing to provide immediate air defence of the port and train Soviet pilots. After escorting Soviet bombers and scoring 14 kills for one loss, and completing the training of pilots and mechanics, No 151 Wing left in November their mission complete.[24] The convoy was the first of many convoys to Murmansk and Archangelsk in what became known as the Arctic convoys. Between June 1941 and May 1945 3,000 Hurricanes were delivered to the USSR along with 4,000 other aircraft, 5,000 tanks, 5,000 anti-tank guns and 15 million boots in total 4 million tonnes of war materials including food and medical supplies were delivered. The returning ships carried the gold that the USSR was using to pay the US.

Significant numbers of British Churchill and Matilda tanks along with US M3 Lee were shipped to the USSR after becoming obsolete on the African Front. The Churchills, supplied by the arctic convoys, saw action around Leningrad while tanks shipped by the Persian route supplied the Caucasian Front. With the USSR giving priority to the defence of Moscow for domestically produced tanks this resulted in 40% of tanks in service on the Caucasian Front being Lend-Lease models.[25]


Zanimljiv je i podatak da je navodno za ceo period rata SSSR uspeo da proizvede celih 20 (slovima - dvadeset) lokomotiva. :dodgy: