ABSTRACT
In the August 1945 lend-lease termination, implementation caused the Russians to receive treatment more discriminatory than that accorded other recipients. In the case of the replies to Russia's two requests for credits for the postwar reconstruction, long delays in implementation, and finally the manner of implementing the reply to the second request, aborted the opportunity to further the policy goals that the responses had sought. In the decisions concerning the ending of lend-lease to Russia, implementation was influenced by both the institutions and rules of the lend-lease program in general and the specific organization and procedures set up for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in particular. In the matter of the extended responses to Russia's two requests for credits, implementation was especially affected by the great changes that occurred during this period in perception of the external setting.
