Reasons for victory
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 17-04-17 16:34
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- Reasons for victory: Russia at war
- The war economy
- Gosplan-suited to organising war economy
- Devoted 56% of economy to the war
- Gosplan insured that rearmament production doubled (1941-44)
- The home front
- Patriotism
- Stalin knew communism was unpopular due to Great Terror
- Russians very patriotic-Stalin used this to gain support
- Patriotism helped to win the war-gave Russians a reason to fight
- The Church
- Stalin made alliance with church-in times of war
- Communists against organised religion
- Allowed 414 churches to reopen in last year of war
- Patriotism
- The enemy within
- Beginning of war-NKVD drew up lists of people who may be sympathetic to Germans
- NKVD either relocated or ordered them to prevent them aiding Germans
- 1953-brutal treatment had led to 60% of those deported being dead
- The war economy
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