The Alex Harris

USSR: -Starts WW2 by invading Poland WITH the nazis. avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_cen… -Gets blindsided by obvious nazi betrayal. -Forces young men into combat with no weapons, they die by the millions because communism incapable of mass production, and devalues human life. -American steps in with lend lease providing: $11.3 Billion ($200 Billion Today) Assets ~400,000 jeeps & trucks ~14,000 airplanes ~8,000 tractors ~13,000 tanks ~350 Locomotives ~1,640 Train Cars ~500,000 tons rails ~1.5 million blankets ~15 million pairs of army boots ~107,000 tons of cotton ~2.7 million tons of petrol products (5.9 Billion Pounds) ~4.5 million tons of food (9.9 Billion Pounds) ~guns ~ammunition ~explosives ~copper ~steel ~aluminum ~medicine ~field radios ~radar tools ~and other items "The most important things in this war are machines. The United States ... is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war." - Stalin -Survives WW2 -Eventually collapses under the cultural weight of blue jeans and Metallica. Fast forward 80 years: “Omg communism is the best look. They killed the most nazi” - some “communist” living in America tweeting from a fucking iPhone