Indeed yes.
In the real WWII history did the Soviet Union defeat Nazi Germany practically alone.
While this WWII fact is less known and less acknowledged in the Western world.
No US Lend-Lease was delivered to the Soviet Union during the utmost critical year 1941 for Soviet.
Soviet lost some 3 million soldiers during 6 months in 1941, almost its entire Red Air Force, the majority of their tanks, huge figures of cannons/equipment/ supplies, and vast territories.
The total US Lend-Lease goods delivered to Soviet into 1942 were nevertheless less/negligible compared the now ongoing massively recovered and up-scaled Soviet war production during 1942.
It further adds to the less/negligible picture that particular the ‘M3 Lee tanks w. 37mm gun’ delivered in 1942, as the only tank type delivered in 1942 by USA, were already obsolete versus the Wehrmacht ‘Panzer III’ and ‘Panzer IV’ tank types. The M3 was nicknamed “A coffin for six” by the Soviets.
Soviet was particular short of tanks and aircrafts in 1942 after the massive 1941 losses.
The often alleged ”millions of boots” is also a strong exaggeration.
In fact were 0.99 million boots named “Shoes, services, enlisted men” in the US Lend-Lease listings delivered to Soviet ( while Britain received 1.5 million pairs of the same type ).
The alleged “millions” of boots figure probably origins from the delivered 13.5 million “Shoes, Russian, war aid” intended for the Soviet civilian work force and other civilians.
The often focused 2000 US Lend-Lease locomotives, is however true. But they were delivered as late as in 1944–1945, the majority during the 2nd part of 1944.
Thus long after Soviet had strategic defeated, and also extensively tactically defeated, Nazi Germany. And had pushed the Germans several hundred kilometres back on the the whole east front, especially the south and central parts of it.
The same is to an extent also applicable regarding the much focused “Trucks”.
The Soviet Union had sufficient quantities of trucks during 1939-1941. But lost an awful lot of them in 1941.
The Soviet Union produced some 250000 trucks throughout the war. This figure is almost 60% of all the US Lend-Lease delivered trucks.
The trucks were actually used for local transports. While other transports were unchanged done by means of trains that were offloaded as close as possible to the front lines where the needs were.
Domestic distributions of raw materials, goods, personell, etc. were similarly performed by trains.
The US Lend-Lease trucks supplied in 1942 assisted by principal to replace the lost in 1941. Then in 1943–1944 to the relatively same purpose for the increased Red Army from 7–8 million soldiers to 10–11 million soldiers. And also from early 1943 on to reduce the relative use of horse drawn local transports from the train supplied local depots to the front lines.
Truck transports during WWII were generally only some 2–4 times faster than horse drawn on a normal day. While in the extensive Soviet offroad conditions, wintertime with icy slippery bad roads built for horse transports, and in deep snow, and also during the several weeks long spring & autumn Rasputitsa endless ‘sea of mud’ seasons, were horse drawn often/mostly more and much more efficient than trucks.
Soviet Union had ultimately strategic defeated Nazi Germany following the Stalingrad Jan. 1943, and Kursk July 1943, strategic victories. From then were the German forces forced on a continuous retreat back to Berlin and an inevitable ultimate defeat.
This was the strategic situation by mid of 1943 - before - the US Lend-Lease had reached any relative significantly deliveries.
This is actually applicable to the whole US Lend-Lease delivery to Soviet.
The often used phrase regarding Nazi Germany - “Too little, too late” - is the applicable also for the US Lend-Lease to Soviet. It did not influence Soviet Union’s capability to defeat Nazi Germany all alone.
Soviet Union did some 85–90% of that total job.
The total US Lend-Lease delivery to Soviet amounted only some 5-6% of the total Soviet war production. The majority was delivered 1943–1945.
It did however provide a positive psychological effect from early 1942.
It was Britain that got both the absolute and relative real huge share of the US Lend-Lease. Not the Soviet Union.
Britain received some 60% of the total. But contributed only some 2–5% on the 1941–45 WWII battlefields in Europe.
Soviet Union received some 22% of the total. And contributed varying extensively some 80–98% on the 1941–1945 battlefields in Europe.
The below tables’ figures show this pretty well.
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