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Heroic USA (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As an Aussie I often forget about the Atlantic because our world map is always Asia centered.

Nevertheless, why did Germany bother? It isn't like they planned to invade USA did they?

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

TIL.

And this from Wikipedia...

Stalin told Nikita Khrushchev that Lend-Lease enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Germany.