{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Nuances of Lend-Lease with Angus Wallace: Episode 79","description":"Did the Lend-Lease program save the Soviet Union? For the Season 3 finale, Angus Wallace of the World War 2 podcast joins to offer a nuanced interpretation.\n\n\n\nAngus Wallace, host and producer of The World War 2 podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-ww2-podcast/id982003188)\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Lend-Lease Act\n\n\n\n\n\nBritish Valentine tanks to be sent to USSR under Lend-Lease, 1942.\n\n\n\nThe Bell P-39 Aircobra, one of the fighters the U.S. sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease.\n\n\n\nA Hawker Hurricane fighter sent for the Red Air Force.\n\n\n\n\n\nFleets of Studebaker, Ford and Chevrolet trucks sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease.\n\n\n\nU.S. jeeps sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease made Life magazine.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Western Allies sent millions of tons of food aid to the Soviet Union during World War 2.\n\n\n\nThe Red Army moved tanks to the front by rail, on flatcars, with locomotives often supplied by the U.S. Much of the rail was also supplied by the U.S.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe “Big Three,” Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Roosevelt was clearly unwell by this point. This conference decided the post-war division of Europe between West and East, meaning USSR.\n\nMaps\nMap 1: Lend-Lease shipping routes\n\nLend-Lease shipping literally spanned the globe.\n\n\n\nMap 2: The Arctic route (polar projection)\n\n\n\n\n\nMap 3: The Persian Corridor.\n\nShips arrived in Persian Gulf ports, then goods were transshipped by train through Iran to be loaded onto ships again at the Caspian Sea.\n\n\n\nMap 4: The Pacific route.\n\n\n\nNote the proximity to Japan as ships approach Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.\n\n\n\n\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762344/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}