Assess the impact on the USSR of the Great Patriotic War

Assess the impact on the USSR of the Great Patriotic War The Great Patriotic War had a huge effect on every country that was involved, but in this essay I will be looking closely at the specific effects on the USSR. First I will look at the economic effects of the German invasion. As the Germans advanced from the west, they took control over large units of Russian industry and agriculture, particularly when they invaded …

…effects, as now Stalin was undoubtedly the leader with no-one in a position to challenge him, but also he had been recognised as a world leader, so other countries might start to sit up and take notice of Communism, which was Stalin's long term foreign policy of "socialism in one country". Now he had firmly planted socialism in the USSR, now it was the hope that it would take root and spread into other countries.