Western Aid for the Soviet Union During World War II: Part II

2017/10/02 by Denis Havlat · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #International Development and Aid #EU Law and Policy Analysis #Global Peace and Security Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1080/13518046.2017.1377013

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Abstract

During World War II the Soviet Union received large amounts of aid from the Western world in the form of supplies and military intervention, both of which were declared to have been irrelevant for the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany by Soviet historians. This article examines the claim made by Soviet historiography, and it comes to the conclusion that both Western supplies and military intervention were far more helpful than claimed by the Soviets. Without this aid the Red Army would not have been able to perform as well as it did historically, tilting the balance in Germany’s favor. Soviet claims about the irrelevance of Western aid can thus be dismissed as propaganda and inaccurate.

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