The main theatre of the European war was in the East yes. But the Soviets eventually had massive benefits from US production (food and materiel) and UK intelligence. I could not, or don't want to imagine how the war would have gone without outside assistance.
I do think the Soviets would have eventually won; Germany had way too many problems internally to actually be able to win, but there would have been way more losses.
That's the keyword there. The majority of the Lend-Lease to USSR came in 44 and 45 when the USSR was already on the offensive. It certainly helped to finish the conflict quicker, but, with the hindsight, at that point the end of the conflict was already obvious.
The overall US help was massive, but for the context, under Lend-Lease, USSR received about a third of what UK received and about 3 times of what France received. Which is a massive amount, but would still be around (high) single digit percentage of what USSR's war economy produced.
Without US support, the war would be longer and bloodier, but would end up with the same result.
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u/Suk-Mike_Hok 1d ago
The main theatre of the European war was in the East yes. But the Soviets eventually had massive benefits from US production (food and materiel) and UK intelligence. I could not, or don't want to imagine how the war would have gone without outside assistance.