Editing Great Patriotic War (section)

== Aftermath ==

=== Drought of 1946-7 ===
The Nazis' planned famines had wiped out Soviet grain reserves. The USA expected the USSR to starve during the war, but it held out. Only after the war, a drought hit and there was a famine in 1946-1947. Stalin stopped exporting grain and sent it to feed the people.

=== "Rape of Berlin" ===
The Germans had committed countless rapes, looting, and other atrocities. When the Red Army reached Berlin, many soldiers wanted to turn the tables, but the Soviet leadership held their soldiers to a higher standard than the Germans.

The Soviet High Command gave many commands against rape and destruction.<blockquote>Strict orders have been issued that the German civilian population is to be left alone, nothing is to be stolen, and German women are not to be molested. - Major Kostikov</blockquote>The Soviet command even banned troops from drinking alcohol and fraternizing with Germans (visiting German homes, movies, bars, cafes, or riding in their trains or buses).

According to the CIA, at least 10-15% of Soviet Armed Forces were spending time in prison for rape.

<ref>Saed Teymuri, The History of the USSR and the People's Democracies, Chapter 10 Section 10. Via Sovinform, "Soviet High Command banned troops from Rape in Germany". https://sovinform.net/soviet-high-command-banned-troops-from-rape-in-germany.htm</ref>

=== Rise of Communism ===
After the Soviets swept Eastern Europe, they introduced Eastern European workers to communism. The Soviets set up People's Democracies, banning fascists from participating in government. Communists became popular<ref name=":2" /><ref>Saed Teymuri, Sovinform, Czechoslovakian Proletarian Revolution. https://sovinform.net/Czechoslovakia-Proletarian-Revolution.htm</ref> and won these elections, and set up dictatorships of the proletariat, which lasted until 1989.

Communists also swept China, liberating 500 million people. Communists now led almost a third of humanity.

=== Effect on capitalist countries ===
Communists became extremely popular even in the capitalist world, which thanked them for defeating the Nazis. Even so, the Western bourgeois wanted World War III.<ref name=":9">Herbert Aptheker, The Truth about Hungary. https://archive.org/details/the-truth-about-hungary</ref> Churchill demanded to invade the USSR, but his advisors told him it was impossible.<ref>UK National Archives, Operation Unthinkable.https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/cold-war-on-file/operation-unthinkable/</ref>

The British Empire was forced to reorganize. During the war, it had infiltrated the FDR administration, especially the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was set up by British agent Dick Ellis. The OSS was reorganized into the CIA, creating the American deep state.

Many colonies of the British Empire, such as India and Ghana, were made nominally independent after WWII to prevent nationalist revolutions (which would have been supported by communism). The colonies were effectively transferred to the control of the CIA.