This hasn't got much to do with Soviet preparedness in the 80's, and the soviets had fully mechanized their division and motorized their logistics tail by then.
Lend-lease did contribute significantly to the soviet's logistic capacity in the second world war, notably the jeep and the deuce-and-a-half Studebaker trucks, both regarded very highly and subsequently used as model designs for the UAZ And Zil.
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This hasn't got much to do with Soviet preparedness in the 80's, and the soviets had fully mechanized their division and motorized their logistics tail by then.
Lend-lease did contribute significantly to the soviet's logistic capacity in the second world war, notably the jeep and the deuce-and-a-half Studebaker trucks, both regarded very highly and subsequently used as model designs for the UAZ And Zil.