Someone who i assumed had a rather heavy bias claimed that this was the case and even claimed that Zhukov is credited with saying that "american Spam saved us". Since I could not find this quote anywhere i assume that the rest of their claim has little merit? Am i wrong in this?
I wrote a piece dealing with comparative production of the US and the USSR, and to quote the relevant part about food production:
All in all, it came to roughly 12 billion in aid from the USA. Soviet claims are that Lend Lease represented only four to ten percent of their total production (the impact was seriously minimized in Soviet studies of the war), but even if they are not downplaying it, this is no small amount! Certainly not all of it was the best stuff. The boots especially were ill-suited for Russian winter, and the opinions of the thousands foreign tanks (16 percent of USSR production) and planes (11 percent of USSR production) were mixed, but the trucks and food can't be overstated enough, the latter quite possibly saving the USSR from famine level hunger in 1942, since they had lost 42 percent of cultivated land to the German offensive, losing 2/3 of grain production! Equalling 10 percent of Soviet production, two percent of US food production was sent off to the Soviets, which, to put in perspective:
It has been estimated that there was enough food sent to Russia via Lend-Lease to feed a 12,000,000-man army half pound of food per day for the duration of the war.