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==Commonwealth==
==Commonwealth==
[[File:Service-pnp-ppmsca-23900-23988r.jpg|right|150px|thumb|1942 American World War II [[propaganda]] poster designed to build support for the [[Soviet]] ally. The poster was part of a [[U.S. Office of War Information]] series aiming to foster positive views of Allied nations.<br>''Source: [[Library of Congress]]''<ref>https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009634186/</ref>]]
[[Canada]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]] had their own lend-lease programs to help the British. Australia and New Zealand imposed rationing on their own people to ship food to Britain.
[[Canada]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]] had their own lend-lease programs to help the British. Australia and New Zealand imposed rationing on their own people to ship food to Britain.
===USSR===
===USSR===
The official Soviet position and that of its [[Comintern]] allies prior to June 22, 1941 was in direct and vocal oppostition to Lend-Lease. Once the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler violated the terms of the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]], oppostition ceased.
The official [[Soviet]] position and that of its [[Comintern]] allies prior to June 22, 1941 was in direct and vocal oppostition to Lend-Lease. Once the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler violated the terms of the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]], oppostition ceased.
As the war progressed the [[Soviet Union]] became locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] and greatly benefited from the US war materials; they were delivered via Arctic seaports of [[Archangel]] and [[Murmansk]], over land across Persia ([[Iran]]), and via [[Vladivostok]]. While Soviets historians downplayed the importance of the aid, recent scholarship has discovered how essential it was to the Soviet war effort.
As the war progressed the [[Soviet Union]] became locked in a struggle with the invading German [[Wehrmacht]] and greatly benefited from the US war materials; they were delivered via Arctic seaports of [[Archangel]] and [[Murmansk]], over land across Persia ([[Iran]]), and via [[Vladivostok]]. While Soviets historians downplayed the importance of the aid, recent scholarship has discovered how essential it was to the Soviet war effort.