"The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war."While the Russian soldiers did most of the dying and most of the killing of Germans - that is not what won the war!
That the minister ignores the fact that the US and UK were solely responsible for the ever expanding destruction of Germany's war industry and the scale and importance of US Lend Lease to the USSR's ability to wage any kind of war against Germany.
That quote and the below figures can be found in "Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II" byAlbert L. Weeks.
Some of the figures on US Lend Lease to the USSR:
Vehicles (trucks, jeeps, etc.): 437,000
RR cars & locomotives: 13,000
Tanks: 7,000
Aircraft: 15,000
Machine Tools: 306,000
Steel: 2,300,000 tons (from rolled aircraft steel to armor plate)
Petro Prods: 2,650,000 tons
AA Guns: 8,000
Guns: 132,000
And there was much more.
In short, the USSR could not have supplied and transported its army without Lend-Lease. And they would have faced a German army infinitely better supplied than allied bombing rendered them.
And there was much more.
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And most important of all... Spam.
Also important to Russian victory were the fifteen oil refineries that Fred Koch (father of the Koch brothers) built in the Soviet Union in the ‘20s and ‘30s.