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    1 year ago

    The Soviets wouldn’t have been able to fight without American Lend-Lease.

    Not a single piece of american lend-lease arrived until after the battle of Moscow. The war had already turned. That’s not to say it wasn’t useful, more germans would have escaped encirclements and pace would have been slower as a result, it would have taken 12-18 months longer. But every academic historian agrees that the germans had lost the war as of the battle of moscow. Trying to present this as the war having been won by the american aid is absurd and there are no academic historians that agree with it, at best you’ll get them to hedge and say they don’t know the impact.

    old Stalinist propaganda, and barely worth refuting.

    Einstein, barely worth refuting. Your brain must be MASSIVE mate.

    I will, however, link to this:

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/world/ch12.htm

    You’re linking to a book written in 1937. That predates the molotov-ribbentrop pact by 2 years lmao. It has zero relevance here other than being “stalin bad grrr stalin was mean to trotsky!” which is true but completely irrelevant to the nazis. I will say that the idea that stalin had anything to do with the failure of the german revolution is absurd. The german revolution failed the day Rosa was murdered and if there is any event in history I would change with a time machine it would be her death. It occurred at an utterly pivotal moment that guaranteed the following rise of fascism.