It’s more accurate to say that the great patriotic war was a war in defense of the Motherland. Not an offensive war. The Soviet people gave everything for victory as victory meant their lives were saved from fascist genocide.

When victory was won, it was time to go home. Stalin gave the order to demobilize construction workers, teachers, doctors, and other groups necessary to begin healing and rebuilding the ruins caused by the fascists. There was no stomach for more war as the worker understood intimately its horrors.