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[โ€“] 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

[โ€“] 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.