THE ROLE OF lEND-LEASE in
SOVIET ECONOMY DURING
THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
01
OF THE PROGRAM
Lend-Lease
THE BEGINNING
President Roosevelt
signed the Lend-Lease
bill into law on March
11, 1941.
02
MAIN ROUTES
DELIVERY WAS VIA:
• THE ARCTIC CONVOYS,
• THE PERSIAN CORRIDOR,
• AND THE PACIFIC ROUTE.
LEND-LEASE
03
THE BEGINNING
THE UNITED STATES STARTED TO DELIVER GOODS AND
MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS TO THE SOVIET UNION
ON OCTOBER 1, 1941, AND ENDED THE PROGRAM ON MAY 31,
1945
SOVIET AMBASSADOR MAXIM LITVINOV SIGNIFICANTLY
CONTRIBUTED TO THE LEND-LEASE AGREEMENT OF 1941.
LEND-LEASE
04
LEND-LEASE IN NUMBERS
In total, the U.S. deliveries to
the USSR through LendLease
amounted
to
$11 billion in materials.
It amounts 138 billion US
Dollars in the prices of 2008
year.
11 billion
US DOLLARS
LEND-LEASE IN FIGURES
THE US DELIVERED
to USSR
1941-1945
400,000 jeeps and trucks
12,000 armored vehicles
11,400 aircraft
1.75 million tons of food
LEND-LEASE IN NUMBERS
In total 4 million tonnes of
war material were delivered.
The
munitions
£308m
totaled
The food and raw materials
totaled £120m in 1946
index.
GREAT
BRITAIN
IN LEND-LEASE
GREAT BRITAIN
DELIVERED to USSR
1941-1945
43,000 Hurricanes aircraft
4,000 other aircraft
27 naval vessels
5,218 tanks (including 1,380
Valentines from Canada)
5,000 anti-tank guns
4,020 ambulances and trucks
LEND-LEASE IN FIGURES
RETURNING GOODS AFTER THE
WAR
LEND-LEASE
VERY LITTLE WAS RETURNED EXCEPT
FOR A FEW UNARMED TRANSPORT
SHIPS. SURPLUS MILITARY
EQUIPMENT WAS OF NO VALUE IN
PEACETIME.
Reverse Lend-lease was the
supply of equipment and services
to the United States.
The U.S. received $2M in reverse
Lend-Lease from the USSR
including:
300,000 tons of chrome ore,
32,000 tons of manganese ore,
and
large
supplies
of platinum, gold and wood.
While repayment of the interest-free
loans was required after the end of the
war under the act, in practice the U.S. did
not expect to be repaid by the USSR after
the war.
The U.S. asked for $1.3B at the cessation
of hostilities to settle the debt, but was
only offered $170M by the USSR.
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