In 1941, Stalin’s Red Army outnumbered the German invaders by 1/3rd (3 million vs 4.5 million).  When the Reich preemptively attacked the Soviet Union regime 1 million overwhelmed Red Army troops immediately surrendered.

The Reich armies reached Moscow in 16 weeks. With the aid of the Capitalist West, the Red Army took two years to reach Berlin.

QUOTE: ‘The victory over Nazi Germany was achieved through the economic power of the United States who, for reasons that defy logic, made the ultimate sacrifice to keep in power a regime as brutal as their enemy.’  ~  Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II. By Albert L. Weeks. Lexington Books, New York, 2004.

On England’s account, 5,000 tanks, 7,000 fighter aircraft, 15,470,000 million pairs of Red Army boots, and 4 million tons of other aid were sent to Bolshevik-occupied Russia. 

Also included, are 550 Royal Air Force trained pilots. These essentials to the survival of Bolshevism were carried by 1,400 merchant ships in 78 convoys, the world’s greatest armada.  Of these 101 were lost with their crews. 

Included 7,500 tanks, 132,000 machine guns, 11,155 rail-road wagons and 2,000 railway locomotives, (used for Gulag deportations, and ethnic cleansing as were U.S. trucks).

35,000 motorcycles, 345,000 tons of explosives, bombs etc. 105 submarine hunters, 90 merchant ships, 197 torpedo boats, 7784 ship engines, food 4,475,000 tons, tires 3,786,000. (This list is partial).

Bolshevik Occupied Russia received free of charge 450,000 military vehicles from the Capitalist U.S. Britain and Canada.  It was said that the Red Army marched in British-made boots. The full list of supplies is far too lengthy to itemize here.

This was the same ‘invincible’ Red Army that had been routed and defeated by a farmers’ army when Stalin invaded the Finnish motherland in 1939. 

A Red Army that had by then crushed Poland, tiny Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and a score of other Eastern European nations. 

It is what Bolsheviks impudently call ‘defending their motherland.’  It is what the Capitalist West describes as a liberation. 

American and British Aid were sent to save Private Stalin’s luckless Red Army.

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
Non-ferrous metals 802,000 tons
Petroleum products 2,670,000 tons
Chemicals 842,000 tons
Cotton 106,893,000 tons
Leather 49,860 tons
Tyres 3,786,000
Army boots 15,417,001 pairs

5,000 tanks and 7,000 aircraft were delivered to the Soviets, not to mention 15 million pairs of boots, among the four million tons of vital supplies sent to the Allies.

A total of 1,400 vessels plied the route in 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 1945; 101 ships were lost. Belfast’s own sister ship, HMS Edinburgh, was sunk near Murmansk.

The first convoy was carrying a very special cargo. By September 1, 550 pilots and ground crew from No 151 Wing of the RAF arrived in Murmansk with 40 Hawker Hurricane fighters, the planes that, together with the Spitfire, had won the Battle of Britain.

Their objective was to provide immediate air defence against the Axis forces that had launched Operation Silver Fox in the hope of capturing this vital port. They were also there to train Soviet pilots to operate the first of what would eventually total almost 3,000 Hurricanes delivered to the Soviets.

For their efforts, four pilots in 151 Wing would become the only Britons in the Second World War to receive the Order of Lenin, among them New Zealand-born Wing Commander Henry Ramsbottom-Isherwood, who later served in Burma. PLEASE SHARE OUR STORIES WHICH MEDIA CENSORS