Enlisting mass patriotism
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- Created on: 19-04-14 11:37
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- Enlisting mass patriotism
- Propaganda
- withheld any bad news
- exaggerated claims of German losses
- focus on national pride and patriotism
- The Great Patriotic War
- Mass hatred toward Germans
- Stalin's name was constantly held up as a patriotic symbol
- Emphasis of propaganda was mostly Russian
- Despite the whole of the Soviet Union being involved in the war
- People's Militias
- Partisan Movement
- inadequate training and weapons
- formed spontaneously by citizens committed to war
- Women
- Nacht Thexen
- 800,000 women in the war
- 2000 snipers - 500 survived
- Religious Concessions
- Restored the Russian Orthodox Church
- Stalin met the head of the church and was given the church's blessing in the war effort
- meant that the Soviet Union's persecuted Christians would begin to show support
- Church began raising money for the war effort
- Campaigned to open up a second front
- able to preserve traditional structure
- by 1943 there were over 15000 Orthodox Churches
- Rzeheshevsky - "The influence of the Orthodox Christian and other religions on the populations was a far cry from what bourgeois historians claim it was and could not serve as a source of inspiration in the struggle against the enemy"
- NKVD
- rounded up anyone with a previous record of opotion
- Drastic action taken against 'defeatists' and 'rumour mongers'
- Thousands of suspects were shot, as were soldiers who retreated on the battlefield
- Propaganda
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