Why did the USSR win WW2?

Russian endurance
1. Survived horrible conditions (ex:Leningrad)
2. Propaganda saying fight was needed everywhere
3. Big sense of patriotism
Weather
1. Winter came early in 1941
2. Germans not equipped for Russian weather- believed it would all be over before winter
3. Mud+snow slowed down Germans
4. Long distances: no short end to war
Germans unliked
1. Ukrainians at first welcomed germans (1932-33 famine)
  1. 11 million soviet deaths during occupation+ 'Einsatzgruppen' repulsed them
2. Soviets were 'untermenschen': sent to labour camps
3. 250,000 pro-russian partisans at their peak --> attacked German units+supply lines
Relocation+change of production
1. Factories moved to Urals +focused on war production
2. 1942: production of tanks+planes >1941
3. 1943: produced more war material than Germany
5-year plans
1. Had strengthened: economy+resources
2. 1944: Germans outnumbered+outgunned
Food production
1. Limits on private slots in collectivised farms lifted
  1. Farmers encouraged to make more food
Religion
1. Stalin appointed a new 'Patriarch Sergius'
2. Some churches re-opened--> give hope to people

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	Created by g-jacqmin over 8 years ago