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Many credit the US with supplying the Soviet Union during WWII. This is true, the US helped, but don't forget the Russians managed to build 50,000+ T-34 tanks all by themselves, their fighters, bombers, small arms and most of their katyusha artillery was home made. If the Soviet Union had folded, under no circumstances would the Allies have come close to making an entrance in France. Without wanting to take away one iota from the terrible depredations suffered by the Soviet peoples and the fantastic sacrifices and heroic contributions they made in that war, I have to disagree that the Soviet Union was the indispensable element. The Soviet armies were kept in the field by the United States. It was America that gave the Soviets the food they could not grow for themselves, the steel and other raw materials for their factories that they could not produce for themselves, and the trucks, planes, weapons and ammunition which they could not produce for themselves, that allowed them to fight. Had Germany not attacked Russia, or if Russia had been knocked out of the war quickly as Hitler expected then the United States and Britain, with the vast economic resources of America and the British Empire, and eventually the atom bomb, would still have won through, although the human cost for us would have been far greater. Victory would still have been achievable, but had vastly higher cost. Michael Montagne The Soviet Union in WW2 was weak in production and supplies, but it was still an important ally, without it, the Axis would have won. The Soviet Union is rich in oil as well as other resources; if they surrendered to the Germans, the Nazis would extract whatever the German army needs from the grounds. Also, without the Soviet Union, there would be no fronts in Europe. The Normandy invasion would face more resistance from the Nazis than it did, and perhaps would end up similar to the Dieppe raid. In addition, with Soviet Union added to the Nazi Reich, the Germans can support Japan in Asia by attacking China from the north-west. The African wars would have been different; the Nazis would have had more soldiers to fight under Rommel. All of the Allied countries that haven't been taken over were important. Without any of them, the war would have been different, some maybe small differences, but it would still give the Axis an advantage. But Soviet Union was definitely an important ally.

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