The Great Patriotic War: Politics
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- The Great Patriotic War: Politics
- Why did the war happen?
- 2 Years into WW2
- Germany invades Soviet Union
- Threat from Japan
- Finland beats Soviet Union in Winter War
- So Germany thinks Soviet Union is weak / the Red Army is weak.
- No other major enemy for Germany
- Ideology: Soviet Union is communist, Germany is Fascist
- Soviet Union was never fully involved in the League of Nations
- This caused distrust between capitalist governments and the Soviet Union.
- Soviet's don't see the point in getting involved in the war yet.
- Hitler's 'living space'
- Germans see Soviet Union as something else to conquer before they got too powerful.
- Was the Soviet Union even ready for the war?
- Purging of senior officers left army without leadership
- 30,000 are 'purged', dead dismissed, starved, exiled etc.
- Gives Stalin totalitarian rule
- Lack of training and leaders
- No-one challenges Stalin
- Stalin is ULTIMATE leader
- Purging of senior officers left army without leadership
- Is Stalin a Good War leader or a Bad One?
- In the first few weeks of the war he tells his generals to do nothing.
- Does get the cabinet of leaders together at the end.
- Brought back religion for morale
- Effective - Scorched Earth Policy (but it is a short term solution)
- Killed 27 million people to win the war
- Degree of the death toll was due to the German treatment of civilians
- Repression - very repressive leader
- Genocides happened often, The Katyn Massacre - officers buried in the woods.
- Uses his resources effectively
- Stalin diverts lots of his soldiers to round up - the 'undesireables' that supported Hitler.
- Stalin's importance to victory was minimal, just because he was in charge when war won doesn't make him massively important.
- Germans make mistakes
- Are Totallarian regimes easier to fight?
- In democracy the morale and support isn't forced.
- However with Totallarianism - just get rid of people that oppose you.
- Depends on how effective the leader is
- In democracy - good technology, money as an incentive
- Why did the war happen?
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