Keith Willshaw wrote:

And I'm claiming that US aid to SU wasn't that massive at the beginning.

" Congress appropriated 13 billion dollars for the lend-lease program by
October 28, 1941, but the movement of goods overseas got under way slowly.
Our munitions industry was still largely in the tooling up state. "

$13 billion 1941 dollars sounds a pretty massive amount to me and
supplies of food and fuel and trucks were every bit as important
as munitions.

But that $13 billion was the whole LL, UK propably got quite a chunk of
it. And at the beginning largest part of US LL shipments was food.

"It is now said that the Allies never helped us . . . However, one
cannot deny that the Americans gave us so much material, without
which we could not have formed our reserves and ***could not have
continued the war***"

I don't doubt that, but was he talking about the aid USSR received
before USA joined in the war?

" The first convoy of American and British cargo ships steamed into the
harbor of Murmansk while the German armies were hammering at the gates of
Moscow. Our aid to the U.S.S.R. was relatively insignificant in 1941, but
it bore the promise of much more to come. "

That convoy arrived before Dec 8 of course, in fact the first convoy to
Northern Russia arrived in August 1941

LL became important to SU in later of the war, because it allowed SU to
commit it's own resources to war, but to call it massive even before US
joined in war is false.

No 13 billion 1941 dollars is massive, the fact that getting the aid to
Russia either via the northern route or through Iran took many weeks
doesnt alter the fact that massive amounts of aid were approved and
dispatched BEFORE the US entered the war.

As I said earlier that 13 billion is the total LL approved by US
congress 28th of october, it wasn't all earmarked for USSR (UK, China,
Greece, Norway (don't know if there were others)).
Is there somewhere a list of good received by USSR on monthly basis or
yearly basis?