| First
The best book on the subject is Richard (James) Overy book "Russia's War" from 1997 there he has accessed the soviet archives gotten them translated and written a very nice book
Second
The Food was great the trucks were great that were given in the lend lease program
Also all the raw materials and Radiostations and cablelines were all great
BUT
The tanks sucked big time!
No Soviet solider never wanted to use the 6 man coffin (name of the americans tanks) because they were many times inferior to the Soviet ones
Also Lend lease Tanks were allways considered light ones and only used for Scouting operations or sometimes against infentry but never Against other tanks or anti tank guns or self propelled artilery or normal artilery
Also it must be pointed out that when lend lease kicked in for real it was 1943 so all Soviet Milatery equipment was allways many times more supperior
BUT
The Lend Lease Equipment was much better then the Japanese which enabled the Soviets to switch the Soviet Equipment which they hade at the Manchurian border for the Lend Lease equipment
The Soviets During the whole war hade some 1.4-2 million men on that Border |