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The Red Army won its most important victories and crushed the German war machine before 85% of the LL came in. Everything else was just there to expedite the fall of the Nazis. Given the state of the Red Army after Kursk and the general attitudes on display from high command, do you seriously imagine that the lack of one tank in ten would stop them from forcing an assault at every opportunity? The biggest thing that kept the Soviets going was food shipments, I've read several memoirs of Red Army grunts who say that Spam and bread from the USA kept them fed during very hungry months following the destruction of the 6th army. Given the general attitudes in high command, even this wouldn't stop them. Soviet tactics simply did not give a shit if you were starving or underequipped. They had objectives handed down by Stalin himself and if you failed, you were being executed, so that starving conscript is gonna get thrown at the enemy lines whether or not he has the strength to stand. Analysis from British historians say LL shortened the war by a single year. The Soviets were self sufficient on most things, (oil, raw materials, weapons, etc), and most of the tonnage was logistical in nature like Jeeps or trains, all things the USSR was producing in droves as a nation geared up for total war. It helped, certainly, but ultimately the victory in Europe falls upon the shoulders of the Soviet war machine and that curiously Russian strategy of "take casualties in stride and destroy the enemy at all costs"