This meme is innaccurate. The soldier on the right is crying because he no longer has legs.
I’ll always wonder what the gradbears make of this but I’ll never know 'coz they banned me for bringing it up
Interesting, because Stalin himself said they’d have lost without lend lease. It’s just not debatable.
Fun Fact: most trucks in the Red Army during the war were American made. While the Allies were a bit leery of making tanks and planes for Stalin, cars and trucks were something we were, at the time, the best in the world at mass manufacturing, so America basically made all the trucks for the Soviets, which let them pour related production into their own tanks (which were better anyways tbh)
Zhukov and Khrushchev also agreed that Lend Lease was crucial, along with many more members of Stalin’s inner circle.
(which were better anyways tbh)
Why do you consider Soviet tanks to be better than their American counterparts?
The T-34 are usually considered the best all around tank of WW2, especially if you are accounting for things like production ease.
On paper their performance was relatively similar when accounting for mobility, armour, and fire power. The only real advantage of the T34 was that it had a lower profile and did better in the snow.
The real magic behind the T34 was the rate at which they could be pumped out and still go toe to toe with most anything on the field. They could slap together a T34 in 9000 man hours of work, compared to the 48,000 hours needed to make a Sherman.
TIL, I thought we just shipped them enough food in the early 1930s during their famines, enough to feed millions of people for a year, until they got successful crops in the silos. They thanked us, we said “no problem, mayn” and trudged back to our Great Depression. There must be 90 year old people in the Russian Federation who remember eating our bread and butter. Can the revisionists take five and let the oldsters speak? I needed to get that off my chest. I’m having a “…Yeah, America’s full of dicks. BUT YOU GOTTA HAVE DICKS, because yeah, dicks fuck pussies, but they also fuck assholes! If there were no dicks any more,then the assholes just shit all over and turn everything to shit!!!” …kind of moment.
(which were better anyways tbh)
I hope you’re deliberately trying to be as non-credible as possible here, because you achieved it.
T-34’s were only good on paper. They were cramped, had poor visibility, and had severe issues with armor spalling that often killed the crew. Plus the transmission was virtually impossible to shift into top gear, so the top speed was purely theoretical.
The only way you could consider a T-34 superior to an American tank during the war is if you compared it to an M3 Lee, and even that’s a stretch
How long did Ukraine hold out for until we got involved? Oh no wait, the same day…how the fuck did we respond that fucking fast?
The US military is the best shipping company in the world. What can blue do for you?
One of our aircraft carriers would be the world’s 3rd largest air force- and we have 11 of them
Yeah, we really need to put some of that money into our economy. I bet you less than 25% of that money could fix our countries problems.
That’s not how it works. The US spends per capita a lot more than pretty much every other country on healthcare, and yet it has huge issues with providing decent care to all its people. Why? Because it’s by design. There are enough money in the system, right now, to remove completely health insurance, put everyone under public health insurance, provide world leading care to everyone and have money left over. We are talking $6,000 per capita yearly spent by Canada vs $13,000 by the US, in 2021.
But then do you have any idea how much value would be lost for shareholders? The proposal is just insane
How would the EU be able to supply Ukraine within 3 days?
The logistics just aren’t possible.
If we go by numbers Germany won both…
We sell many weapons to everyone and boost our economy long therm.
Just 5 more world wars to overtake USA with our GDP
Well you seem pretty young, so if you’re interested in this topic I’d suggest looking up the production numbers of America, the Soviets, and Germany during World War 2.
This article has a pretty decent summary:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II
I’ll just give you general hint, though, that it wasn’t Germany selling weapons to everyone.
