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We started developing this after WW1 and solidified it after WW2. Americans are, by and large, under the laughable impression that we won WW2. We didn't, we came in after most of the fighting had been done and cleaned up and took the glory. Russia won WW2, end of story. But they're pinko commie motherfuckers, so, fuck them.
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Not quite that simple...
Russia, by the time they had stabilized their fronts, had already lost almost all of the agricultural land. They already lost almost their entire army. They were
trying to move their industry to the other side of the Urals, unfortunately it was winter and it was beginning to fail horribly. They moved their industrial supplies over the mountains but failed to secure food provisions before the Germans over-ran it.
We came in with enough food to keep
most of the Russian army fighting until the spring. We also came in with much needed iron (much of the Russian Iron mines/refineries were captured or destroyed), rubber (Russia doesnt have rubber trees nor did they have the newly designed synthetic rubber), explosives (explosive factories were captured, and it's extreamly difficult to build them in the dead of Russian winter).... pretty much everything else you can think of to win a war including direly needed planes (though outdated), jeeps, trucks, trains, etc was sent over there.
So while the Russians may have "won the war", there is no way they could have survived the next spring or summer campaigning season without our supplies, not to mension our opening of a second and third front.