Summary Lend-Lease: Western Aid for the Soviet Union Part of Eastern Front Fortnight (4) on WW2TV With Denis Havlat During WWII the Soviet Union received large amounts of aid from the Western world in the form of supplies and military intervention, both of which were declared to have been irrelevant for the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany by Soviet historians. In this show, we examine the claim made by Soviet historiography, and it comes to the conclusion that both Western supplies and military intervention were far more helpful than claimed by the Soviets. Without this aid the Red Army would not have been able to perform as well as it did historically, tilting the balance in Germany's favor. Soviet claims about the irrelevance of Western aid can thus be dismissed as propaganda and inaccurate. Denis Havlat was born in March 1989 in the Czech Republic (then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) a few years after the Velvet Revolution. He and his parents emigrated to neighboring Austria. In Vienna, Havlat attended school, which he completed in 2007. Since his childhood, Havlat has been interested in military history, so he decided to become a historian. Havlat completed his bachelor's degree in History in 2012 and his master's degree in Contemporary History in 2015. This WW2TV show is part of a revised and expanded version of his master's thesis. Havlat is pursuing a bachelor's degree in Education and is planning to start working on his Ph.D. in History.

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