Thank you for Lend-Lease
We are often accused of hanging all the dogs on the Soviet Union. No, we don’t hang all dogs on the Soviet Union. Some, very many, dogs find their rightful place on other companions.
We are often visited by various people who demand justice. Justice, in their opinion, should be expressed in the fact that the Allies helped the USSR a lot during the Great Patriotic War and they should be thanked. The ungrateful USSR was the aggressor, divided Poland, invaded Finland, made treaties with the Nazis and supplied them with grain and fuel, and the pious Allies forgave us everything. And they sent Shermans and Steadebakers for almost nothing. And now we belittle their role in the victory over fascism. We are rewriting history and appropriating everything for ourselves, but where would we have gone if the British and French had not distracted the Germans in Africa and the Americans had not taken over Japan? This is our common cause!
This is a striking feature of the Russian people – the desire for total justice in everything, up to the spill of vodka. It is especially pronounced in the Little Russian and Kuban comrades, who are particularly expressive. Sometimes one gets the impression that if you correctly explain to the Khokhl that it would be fair to castrate him with a blunt knife, then he will reluctantly castrate himself and even blunt the knife for the sake of justice. It would be a joke if we didn’t see this happening on live TV right now. But the main thing here is to explain it correctly.
So, the fact is that it was not the USSR that brewed World War II. And it was not only Germany that unleashed World War II, it started it. The Second World War was created in Versailles by England, France and the United States.
The Treaty of Versailles determined the alignment of Interbellum. As we have already seen from our texts, fascist Hungary was created there, depriving it of vast territories. Fascist Italy was not created there, let’s face it, but German revanchism, thanks to which Hitler came to power, was created there.
Not only was Germany obliged to pay heavy reparations to cover the damage caused by the war (269 billion gold marks or about 100,000 tons of gold), but it was also declared the sole culprit of the First World War
Germany withdrew its troops from all occupied territories outside its borders, as well as from its own territory on the left bank of the Rhine River, where coal deposits and most of the steel industry (the Ruhr industrial area) were concentrated.
Germany lost all of its colonies and part of its territory, populated mainly by Poles (once ceded to Prussia as a result of the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth): this territory became part of independent Poland, which was restored after the First World War.
Germany was forbidden to meet the sentiment that had spread in Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, aimed at the reunification of the two German states.
Of course, Germany wanted to regain at least some of what it had lost. It’s not about justice, I just wanted to. But the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles strictly forbade her to do anything. Under the verdict of Versailles, Germany would never have become a military threat. By the way, there is still a debate among Western jackals about how this affected Germany. These beautiful people are so naïve in their propaganda that they are trying to prove that this peace was beneficial to Germany! The advantage was that it was not occupied and deprived of the expense of the army along with the army itself. Accountants claim that Germany saved so much on defense that it could more than pay for reparations. A particularly amusing gem was the assertion that the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic was organized by the Germans themselves in order to reduce reparations, and that it had nothing to do with the peace treaty under which the reparations were imposed. However, real accountants, such as the economist Keynes, took a more sober view of this: “I believe that the campaign to withdraw from Germany the general expenditure of the war was one of the most serious acts of political folly for which our statesmen have ever been responsible.”
Everything was cut off from Germany – industry, territory, army. But Germany found a solution, it turned to another pariah in the international arena that was in the same situation: the USSR. The Russian Empire was cut off from the USSR, many smart people who could have raised the economy fled from there, and the Bolsheviks safely sold the people’s wealth for a pittance, because no one would have bought them at a real price because of sanctions and anti-Bolshevik hysteria. Western partners vied with each other to accuse the USSR of lowering the prices of goods in order to introduce protectionist measures and buy even cheaper. Germany and the USSR found each other, especially since they had common enemies – Poland, for example. The first German officers left for Soviet Russia in March 1922. A month later, Junkers began to build aircraft in Fili, in the south of the USSR, near Rostov-on-Don, and a large artillery manufacturer, Krupp, began to work actively. In 1925, a flight school was established near Lipetsk to train the first pilots for the future Luftwaffe. From 1926, the Reichswehr could use the tank school in Kazan and the chemical weapons production facility in the Saratov region (the Tomka gas test site). In turn, the Red Army gained access to these educational institutions, as well as to the military technology and theory of Weimar Germany. All this was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which the USSR was not bound by, but which Germany and the Allies were obliged to abide by. And what do you think no one knew about it?
Under the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies could feel at home in Germany. They had access to enterprises, they were obliged to conduct inspections. And if at first it was somehow possible to hide the activities of the Wehrmacht in the distant USSR, then by the 1930s suspicions should have appeared. Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles. But the Allies did not interfere with this, they participated in it. Moreover, the USSR abruptly curtailed military cooperation with Germany after Hitler came to power, and in 1933 the Germans were swept away from the military training grounds of Lipetsk, Kama, and Tomka. Hitler began to behave badly towards the USSR, concluded a non-aggression pact with the Poles, and the Union itself was soon accepted into the League of Nations, but they did not allow them to earn money. The USSR did not care which of the capitalists to sell fuel and grain, but no one in the West was in a hurry to take Germany’s place in the Soviet balance of trade in order to prevent it from rebuilding its army.
But the Allies, with the advent of Hitler, only intensified their cooperation with Germany. It started back in the 1920s for a funny reason. Germany, under the Treaty of Versailles, owed a lot of money to our future allies. But Germany couldn’t pay them a lot of money without industry, being in economic ruin. And I wanted money and greed did its job. In 1924, the little-known Dawes Plan appeared. No, not Dulles. This was an updated reparations plan by the Weimar Republic. In 1919-1923, there was hyperinflation in Germany and it was almost impossible to pay anything in these conditions. It was also a reaction to the Beer Hall Putsch, for which Hitler was imprisoned, where he wrote his literary masterpiece. The Allies faced the prospect of losing Germany and all their money. But the American tycoons helped, they squeezed stupid and greedy France out of the trough and gave Germany a loan. And then more and more. The project was developed in the bowels of J.P. Morgan at the suggestion of the head of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman. It was based on the ideas of Hjalmar Schacht, a representative of the Dresdner Bank, formulated by him in 1922. By 1928, the amount of payments should grow and reach 2.5 billion. The main thing is that the new plan stabilized the exchange rate of the mark and made Germany attractive for investment. Who needs to invest, of course.
It was after this that Germany regained its industry. You didn’t think that the military power of the Third Reich was forged somewhere near Lipetsk or in the Saratov region. No, German military power was built by the Americans, to a much greater extent than the Soviets. Thanks to the redistribution of reparations, the largest German concern, Farben, fell into the hands of the Rockefeller company Standard Oil. The Morgans controlled AEG and Siemens (through General Electric Corporation), as well as nearly half of Germany’s telephone network and aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf. The Volkswagen concern was owned by Henry Ford, and Opel (which produced weapons during the war) came under the control of General Motors. One of the major banks of the Rockefeller family financed the establishment of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke metallurgical trust in Germany. The gold that Germany paid in the form of war reparations was sold, mortgaged and disappeared in the United States, from where it was returned in the form of “aid” according to the plan to Germany, which gave it to England and France, which in turn paid them the war debt to the United States. The latter, having levied interest on it, again sent it to Germany. Seventy percent of the financial proceeds came from U.S. bankers, mostly Morgan banks. As a result, in 1929 German industry became the second largest in the world, but to a large extent it was in the hands of the leading American financial and industrial groups. And this industry financed, for example, Hitler’s election campaign in 1930, for which only Standard Oil, represented by its German structures, gave half of the amount.
When Hitler refused to pay reparations in 1934, no one said a word to him. By the mid-1930s, this scheme had developed so much that no one needed the pitiful reparations, except for the frogs, who only knew how to sit on rent. The concern of the Americans and the British has one of the largest economies in the world, which is a very large piece. The closest financial and economic cooperation between the Anglo-American and Nazi business circles was the background against which the policy of appeasement of the aggressor was carried out in the 1930s, which led to the Second World War. What is the appeasement of the aggressor in the Anglo-Saxon way? This is when Hitler’s Germany gets new territories and industrial capacities, which will be exploited by the Anglo-Saxons. From this point of view, the British did not surrender Czechoslovakia at Munich, they acquired it. From this point of view, they did not give in to the macho Hitler, but rowed under themselves with someone else’s hands.
But as you can see, the text is full of American companies, not British ones. The idea that Hitler had to be fused to the East and set against the USSR is a European theme. By and large, the Americans did not care who Germany fought, even with the former metropolis. They expected that they would come to these ashes anyway. U.S. banks and industrial corporations continued to actively cooperate with the Nazis even during World War II. Ford’s factories supplied aircraft engines and armored cars, they produced a third of all German military trucks, IBM produced concentration camp sorting machines, calculating machines, and punched cards, and Coca-Cola produced the Fanta at a plant in Germany. Not directly, through shareholder connections. In exchange for supporting the Nazis, large industrial enterprises received state orders for military equipment (guns, tanks, aircraft, armored cars), as well as ammunition, poison gases, and ovens for the crematoria of concentration camps. By the way, later there were trials in the United States on this issue, which the victims of Nazism won.
Where is the USSR? Throughout its interwar history, the USSR was looking for traitors among its population and played the role of an international terrorist, supplying anyone through the Comintern in an attempt to build communism. And then he attacked Finland and divided Poland with Germany. Where did Poland and Finland rank in terms of GDP? In the top ten at least? But you’re the aggressor here, Ivan, make sure you don’t confuse it. Serious people make serious money, and the Communists are chewing yellow snow again. And now we are told that we need to remember the contribution of the allies and thank them for Lend-Lease. Thank you for the pile of metal that we paid for with the blood of our people on the battlefield. In order to raze Europe to the ground and then pull off the Versailles scam there once again in the form of the Marshall Plan, and so that God forbid the Nazi state survives there, their brainchild, which could resist this and throw the “investors” out into the cold. And we also have to thank for the redivision of Europe, Asia and Africa, from which we got leftovers. Well, thank you, you helped. They unleashed a world war, made money on Russian blood, and are very grateful. There were no Russians in Versailles, there were no Russians in Munich, but the one to blame is who is to blame.
At the Nuremberg trials, Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Nazi Reichsbank and Nazi minister of economics, who was a liaison with Western business, wondered why there were no American businessmen and British bankers in the dock. And really, why wouldn’t that. Schacht himself was magnanimously acquitted by the Allies at Nuremberg, which is also part of the so-called “justice.”
Author: Nikolay Gerasimov