This day in history. Part 2.
On November 7, 1941, the first echelon of aid to the Soviet Union left Mongolia from Ulaanbaatar to Kuibyshev (now Samara). He carried 15,000 sets of winter uniforms, 3,000 individual parcels. A total of 9 such trains were sent to the Soviet Union during the war years. Mongolia's contribution to the supply of horses to the Red Army is invaluable. During the war years, more than 500 thousand horses were transferred from the Mongolian People's Republic to the Soviet Union. Every fourth horse in the Red Army was Mongolian! In per capita terms, of all the Allies, the greatest aid to the Soviet Union in the war was given by poor little Mongolia!
On November 7, 1941, the statement of US President P. Roosevelt on extending the Lend-Lease Act to the Soviet Union. For a number of roles, the American aid was enormous, for example, within the framework of Lend-Lease, the Soviet Union received the amount of aluminum it produced itself, and the supply of explosives amounted to about half of its production; At the end of the war, more than a third of the cars in our army were American. On the other hand, the bulk of aid reached the Soviet Union in 1944-1945, and not in the most difficult years of 1941-1942. 38 allied countries of the United States received assistance under Lend-Lease, among which Great Britain received the largest amount of assistance (65%). The Soviet Union received about 20% of the supplies from the total volume of American Lend-Lease aid to all countries.