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I don't trust Krushchev on Stalin. I don't like Stalin, he was a monster but Krushchev has been shown to be unreliable when it comes to Stalin. For instance, Khrushchev is also the guy who said Stalin went to the dacha for days in a depressive spell after the nazis invaded and did nothing for days leaving the country leaderless and they needed to go drag him out of it when the Kremlin records completely disprove him. He was there everyday organizing reunions that lasted forever and micromanaging everything from the very beginning of the invasion.

Meanwhile this is what Zhukov wrote in his memoir (and mind you, my argument isn't that lend lease wasn't important, just that when they ramped up the deliveries the soviets had already turned the tide, the narrative that they won just because of lend lease is untrue and a relic of the cold war)