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oai:doaj.org/article:3066a2fd3875421d93698acd04971eff

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10.31652/2411-2143-2020-32-74-81

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Volumes of leasing supplies to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. by

Abstract

The article is aimed at objective coverage of the volume of supplies as a result of military-economic and political cooperation of the Soviet Union with Great Britain and the United States, as well as the peculiarities of their receipt and use in the USSR. An attempt is made to reveal the role of foreign technologies received through lend-lease in the modernization of domestic production. After all, since the collapse of the anti-Hitler coalition and until recently, the issue of supplies in the USSR has always been at the epicenter of acute discussions on the assessment of the contribution of each of the partners in the anti-Hitler coalition to the victory over Nazism. The research methodology is based on the use of general scientific principles: historicalism, scientific objectivity, system approach in the analysis of historical processes that are considered. Effective were such special historical methods as problem-chronological, comparative-historical, descriptive, historical and systemic. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the complex development of the topic in the close interconnection of the events that took place in the period under consideration, the data on the assistance under the Lend-Lease Program to the Soviet Union during the Second World War are summarized. The conclusions. Based on the analysis of the historiographical and source base, we can confidently note that the supply of equipment and raw materials to the USSR under the Lend-Lease program, in fact, saved the Soviet state from the collapse in 1941-1942 and helped to modernize certain branches of military production. However, the receipt of foreign "defense materials" was accompanied by many contradictions, especially in 1941-1943. The main of them was the slow deployment by the allies of the process of supply to the USSR, which at that time constituted a small part of the Soviet needs. Towards the end of the war, the contribution of lend-lease to the combined military potential of the USSR increased significantly. Allied supplies to the USSR contributed to the intensification of research, the introduction of achievements of foreign design thought in Soviet aircraft, shipbuilding, etc. and to overcome the backlog of the USSR in a number of areas of military production. In addition, we can confidently point out that the Soviet Union took the role of "buffer" and fulfilled what the United States and England supplied with materials, technology and raw materials, because the Soviet state had to turn into a springboard from which the liberation of Europe would begin.

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