Soviet Aid in the Korean War — Was It Like Lend-Lease? #OOTD #shorts

Russians, sowing discord around the world for the last 150 years.

Thank you for the lesson.

An idea for a video.
Describe how Lend Lease works.

I understand that if an item is supplied and destroyed or used in combat like ammo at the end there is no charge.

Equipment and supplies left over that the receiving nation wants to keep are sold for a price.

At the end of the Gulf War in the 1990s. Several people who later transferred stateside spent months destroying equipment that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait did not want to purchase.

It was cheaper to destroy than ship home.

And now they're selling the leftovers back to Russia 😂

I find it hilariously ironic that the Capitalist US was willing to give free help for their self defense

Meanwhile communist USSR indebted fellow communist China for em to defend North Korea for em

What a display of their ideology amirite xD

And China paid for the weaponry by diverting domestic production of food and other vital resources to foreign sales. This resulted in Chinese citizens suffering large scale deprivation and starvation.

Now it is the North Koreans and Chinese sending weapons and ammunitions to Russia to sustain their war efforts in Ukraine. Crazy how history can be reversed.

you can bet that Stalin sent North Korea aome lend lease trucks that the Americans gave them

Much of the starvation China experienced in the 1950's was Mao trading China's food supply for weapons. Between 40 and 60 million Chinese starved to death while Mao became obese.

The capitalist US gave weapons and war material to their frenemy.

The communist USSR sold weapons to its allies.

Make it make sense.

Lend lease was free ?

Wait what happened to the debt on the soviet collapse?

Lend-Lease was definitely not free!
Took the UK at least two decades to pay it off!

Lend-lease wasn't free either... lol

Soviet troops based in the North after WW2 were instructed to leave their weaponry behind when they left the country in 1948.

UN forces: Bombarded by Russian planes and artillery, attacked by Russian tanks, and shot at with Russian rifles and machine guns.
USSR to NK: "Be discreet comrades. Noone can know!"

Land Lease wasn't free either.

I didn’t know that von Brown was a pilot for North Korea.

Unlike lend-lease this was not free…? So lend-lease was free..?

It's a bit sad that the USSR did more to support North Korea then the NATO countrys do to support Ukraine even though Ukraine is a much more important allie.

The Soviets weren't dumb. This was the first jet-on-jet war ever, and a perfect place in which to give their pilots combat training.

Ah, the munitions bank of the whole fighting world, the Soviets were. Literally not a single minor war in the modern day, be it guerillas, civil war, some random thing in Africa, etc. that doesn't use at least some former Soviet equipment. Those things are timeless, immortal and there's an indepleteable amount of it.

Also Lend-Lease wasn't free either, US demanded most of the money from the Soviets back, but they recieved like 3% of it if I remember.

Soviet pilots participating in the war seems to have been a bit of an open secret in the USSR. My dad grew up in the Soviet Union (born long after the war, though) and a joke he liked to tell me was:
"yesterday, brave North Korean pilot Van-Ya Li-Sitsin shot down two American planes!"
Vanya Lisitsin is a very typical Russian name. :P

Like good communists the ussr charged it's communist allies for the equipment in Capitalist currency.

Land Lease was free?

Did they think the West were gonna believe those T34s and Migs grew on trees?!

Yep. Top tier Soviet fighters, as well as Soviet tanks and other ordnance, where they could come from...

2025 Kina and North Korea have to support Russia 😂

The irony of capitalist countries supporting a war effort with such generous terms but socialist countries demanding the money up front!

you know that a state has achieved true communism when they have massive amounts of government debt

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@IndyNeidell C'mon mate, I know you're simplifying things for the short but in no possible twisting of the definition can Lend-Lease be considered "free". This video needs a correction or clarification in the interests of factual history I think...a rare slip for TimeGhost!

Lend-lease wasn't free. Soviets were provided $11 billion in aid from lend-lease. Russia made the final in August of 2006.

Still with that said the US was quite generous when it came to interest rates I recall.

Funny, Chinese often clain they flat-out had NO air force to speak of whatsoever during the Korean War, when in reality they had tons of borrowed Soviet planes.

So the answer is "No, but yes."

The noryh korean armh in 1950 was better equipped than the modern russian army

I thought communist is all about sharing 😅😅.

Soviets, "We are not involved in Korea." (MiG-15s, T-34/85s, Zis guns, Maxim machine-guns, and lots of red banners.)
Those....could've come from anywhere.

The greatest motivator - "plausible deniability".

The lend lease was not free.

Hmm. Wonder if that debt ever got paid back, given the Sino-Soviet split later on.

Was Lend Lease free? I thoight it was lending/leasing gear on very generous terms. We (UK) only paid back our debt in the 90s i think

Russians are NOT European, They belong to the asiatic horde and Russia is more like Nigeria with snow not a European country

what'd the united nations say about soviet tanks and planes in the war? since as far as I understood it the soviets were still part of them right?

Lend lease was NOT free..... check your facts.

How was Lend lease free? Britain paid the final bill in 2006

Naaah, those T-34-85's with red stars on them are DEFINITELY korean-made!

Russian support for North Korea and North Vietnam about a secret as a third grader’s crush on a classmate

Yes. The Soviet equipment totally didn't come from Russia. This is propaganda spread by capitalist pigs 😂

“While pretending to be Chinese…”
I wish I could have seen the costumes and impressions

Lend-lease. The word sounds free to you, genius?