During the Second World War, the United States and Great Britain - the allies of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition - provided the supply of military cargoes (armaments, ammunition, military hardware, food, medical equipment and medicine, strategic raw materials) under the US Lend-Lease Act. Assessing the Allies’ military supplies, the Minister (the People's Commissar) for Foreign Trade of the USSR and Co-Chairman of the Lend-Lease Commission, A.I. Mikoyan, noted that during the Great Patriotic War "we received about 400,000 first-rate cars for their time such as "Studebaker", "Ford", “Willys Jeep" and amphibious vehicles. It was as if our entire army was set on wheels and what wheels they were! As a result, the army’s maneuverability and momentum for advance increased substantially". ... Читать дальше »