Heroic USAimage sqgl ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) Jokes and Humor • 11 months ago message-square10arrow-up1163
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minus-square Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) linkfedilink10•11 months agoThe yanks were sending supplies to the UK. Without it the brits would have run out of food, oil and ammo. It was called Lend Lease
minus-square sqgl ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) OPlinkfedilink8•11 months agoTIL. And this from Wikipedia… Stalin told Nikita Khrushchev that Lend-Lease enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Germany.
minus-square Deebster ( @Deebster@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink5•11 months agoThey sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today’s money was only finally paid off in 2006). If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war. I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.
The yanks were sending supplies to the UK. Without it the brits would have run out of food, oil and ammo.
It was called Lend Lease
TIL.
And this from Wikipedia…
Stalin told Nikita Khrushchev that Lend-Lease enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Germany.
They sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today’s money was only finally paid off in 2006).
If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war.
I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.