WHY THE SOVIET PEOPLE VICTORED

It is known that the fundamental factor of victory in war is the economic power of the victorious country. Undoubtedly, we could not have won without having created a powerful industrial potential over the years of the first five-year plans - the economic foundation for the production of military equipment, weapons, ammunition. After all, it is a fact that, despite the reduction in the total volume of industrial production in the first months of the war, the military output already in 1942 exceeded the pre-war level and increased as long as it was necessary. Yielding to Germany and its satellites in smelting became three times, and in coal mining five times, the Soviet Union produced two to three times more weapons, military equipment and ammunition. Consequently, the effectiveness of Soviet military industry was five to ten times higher than German. Because their industrialists needed a profit, but for us - only a victory. And everyone worked for it - from the people's commissar to the worker.

However, it is also understandable that it is not guns, not weapons that defeat, the soldier armed with them wins. Therefore, let us turn, perhaps, to the most important thing. To win, a soldier must attack. To straighten up to his full height when the air is penetrated by deadly metal is difficult, very difficult, for many it is simply impossible ... The commander’s order helps. But it is known: if a soldier is not sure that it is necessary to rise in the attack, the strictest order will not help either. A simple execution of the order could not have given the absolute mobilization of all spiritual and volitional resources, which allowed us to accomplish the seemingly impossible. Heroism in that holy war was so massive, so universal that each of its participants was involved in a single phenomenon - the feat of a great nation.

And our victory was not only military, and not only economic and political - it was a victory of our spirituality, our ideals, our unity on their basis. It was in the spiritual unity of all Soviet peoples that Stalin saw the most important source of victory. In fact, we won with the clear superiority of the Hitler war machine in material strength. They won precisely because there was truth behind us, behind us was an unshakable faith in victory, behind us was loyalty to the Motherland. It was a victory of morality - a victory of the spirit of popular resistance, making, ultimately, the most perfect fire systems useless. The people who have overcome the fear of them are invincible. According to the remark of Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky, inspiration is able to ten times the energy of soldiers.

The first to go into battle were the Communists and Komsomol members - the vanguard of the people. They were not only carriers of courage and courage, but also creators of the high morale of the army. They were hit by bullets and splinters, but they did not become smaller. During the battles in Stalingrad, fighters and commanders of the 62nd and 64th armies were awarded more than ten thousand party cards. At party and Komsomol meetings, resolutions were adopted: “There is no land beyond the Volga for us!” And the fiercer the battles, the stronger the vanguard became and the more stubborn the resistance to the enemy.

In the generation of young people brought up in the Stalin era, the highest moral values ​​were clearly expressed: the desire for personal freedom, for the affirmation of human dignity was combined in it with a willingness to sacrifice. This generation has absorbed the joy of free creative work, the heroics of the development of new spaces, the beauty of human actions in everyday life. It was imbued with a special phenomenon of the spirit - Soviet patriotism - and was ready for the most severe trials. Faced with hostile strength, it stood and won.

... It was the greatest, unmatched, military victory. It was defeated in the largest military clash in world history. Such a victory could be won only by a great nation under the leadership of a great leader. Stalin as the people's leader created the "spiritual resource" of our victories. He managed to awaken and mobilize the innumerable forces of the people, inspire him to great military and labor exploits in the name of holy ideals. In turn, the people had unlimited faith in their leader and followed him.

Believing in the strength and abilities of the Soviet people, Stalin especially singled out the Russian people in him. He admired his calm, balanced character, the strength of his spirit, the clarity of his mind, his constant readiness for self-sacrifice, his beauty and courage. Stalin considered the main thing among the Russian people his unlimited trust in state policy, which he spoke about publicly, speaking at a reception on May 24, 1945.

Without this trust of the people and the leader’s faith in his spiritual forces, there could be no victory. It was truly incredible in terms of logic: after all, it was necessary to defeat the strongest army of all that had ever existed on the planet, the army for which industry worked for almost all of continental Europe. Here we needed a special, superhuman energy of the spirit, focused in the personality of the people's leader. Maybe we had a different personality, capable of completing such a mission? The answer is clear: not. Therefore, there are very serious reasons to believe that without Stalin there would have been no Victory. It was his victorious image that became her spiritual weapon.

As G. Hilger, Stalin’s German biographer, noted years later, “there is no doubt that no one but Stalin could inspire the Russian people for the exploits that they accomplished during the war. " One of the largest American diplomats during the Second World War, the US ambassador to the USSR in 1943-1946, spoke in the same spirit. A. Harriman: “I think that Stalin was a very capable, gifted person, a man of extraordinary abilities and brutal determination. He completely controlled not only military operations, but also production. He also inspired people with faith and supported their spirit during the war. ”

So, we won because we created the most efficient material production system in the world and the most perfect conditions for educating people. We won because we opposed the enemy’s technology and weapons with our, more reliable, technology and weapons, the enemy’s tactics and strategies — our more skilled tactics and strategy. But on top of this, we had a holy faith in the rightness of our cause, the highest strength of fighting spirit, unity and the will to win, which was not, and could not be, the enemy. Finally, they won because Hitler’s leadership and organizational abilities were opposed by state wisdom, iron will and the general genius of Stalin.

These are the main factors of our victory.

V.A. Tuev,

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor


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