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Nazi Germany was socialist.
The Soviet Union didn't stand a chance without hundreds of billions in U.S. Aid. Do you know how many trucks, tanks, planes we sent them? Tons of steel, copper, aluminum, rubber, yada, yada yada?
Nothing remotely socialist about Hitler after the Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler disassociated himself from the SA, so that the oligarchs would appoint him chancellor.
Any while yes the US supplied vital war material to the USSR at the very beginning, that was nothing compared to what the USSR finally produced, and it was only for a short while that we supplied anything.
The only real thing of value that we gave the soviets.
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The US6 was manufactured primarily for export under
Lend-Lease. The Soviet Union would become the largest foreign operator. The first Studebaker US6 trucks arrived in the USSR in the autumn of 1941. The
Red Army organized a test of eleven 6×6 "Studebekkers" (as they become referred to in the USSR) which took place between July 1942 and May 1943. The results were used to direct the enlargement of the payload from 2 1⁄2 to 4 tons (2,300 to 3,600 kg).
[4] In 1945, it was lowered to 3 1⁄2 tons (3,200 kg), although on improved roads they could carry up to a maximum of 5 tons (4,500 kg).
Large numbers of Studebaker US6 trucks were supplied to the Soviet Union via the
Persian Corridor in Iran under the USA's
Lend-Lease program. The truck fulfilled many important roles in service with Soviet military forces during the war, such as towing artillery pieces and anti-tank guns and transporting troops over long distances. It was renowned for its overall ruggedness and reliability, including its ability to run on poor-quality fuel. The Soviet
Red Army also found them to be a suitable platform for conversion into
Katyusha rocket launchers, although this was not their main purpose. The truck became affectionately known as the
Studer by Soviet troops and was even recognised of its importance (to the Soviet war effort) by
Joseph Stalin, who sent a personal letter of appreciation to Studebaker, in which he thanked them for the superb quality of the US6 for Soviet service.
Studebaker US6 trucks were also used by the US military in the construction of the
Ledo Road in Burma, and the
Alcan Highway in North America, during WWII.
Following the end of WWII, the US6 strongly influenced the USSR's design of the
ZIS/ZIL-151 truck, which, in turn, evolved into the similar (and succeeding)
ZIL-157.
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Not sure how many we gave them, but 200,000 were made and I think we gave them most of them?