Plan_D:
Did you know you could immediately get yourself a job in CNN?
You are excellent at distorting my comments.
I have never ever said nor suggested anything nowhere nearly similar to what you typed over there.
The soviets were more than capable to fight, and to do it with absolute determination.
MY idea was rather that without Lend Lease certainly the soviet union could have been defeated by Germany.
Lend Lease facilitated massive issues to the soviets. One of them, for instance, is that they did not have to produce any significant numbers of military transport vehicles. The USA supplied them with more than half a million of those (i.e. Studebackers, jeeps, etc.) and no matter what the soviets said, massive raw materials and laborce were instead utilized to produce more and more of their tanks, aircraft, artillery, etc.
No Lend Lease no mechanization of the red army, say, for the big summer offensive of 1944.
No Lend Lease and one can see the Wehrmacht facing far lesser numbers of T-34s, IL-2s, Katyushas and artillery.
If with their ultra massive resources, both domestic and Lend Leased, the red army had to take a rest for refitting due to the frightful losses they took after the big offensive of the summer of 1944 -when the Germans were pushed out of the USSR-, what could have happened if no Lend Lease had been available to the communists?
Perhaps no operation Bagration?
And last but not least, agriculture. The main barns of the soviet union, the Ukraine and Kuban, had been devastated both by the retreating Russians and the combat which took place in such areas.
The soviet union had had serious problems in feeding itself before the war. Ever heard of Stalin´s famines?
Now, try to picture the food situation in the soviet union once the Wehrmacht attacked, having its richest agricultural lands overran by the enemy and the destruction ans damages caused in those areas.
No Lend Lease and the soviet union is on the verge of famine, again; this time however it is famine with an extremely skilled and powerful enemy attacking you. What kind of scenario this would have made?
A starved army, Plan_D, can certainly be uncapable to fight.
P.S. Plan: do not forget to apply for a job at CNN.