<<After conquering half the worlds resorces and makeing it all property of the state , how could they be broke?>>
Maybe you could be more specific about "conquering half the world's resources." What the hell are you talking about? As far as I could tell, they "conquered" a few East European shit-holes like Poland and Hungary and a few others, most of which were almost as broken down by the ravages of war as the U.S.S.R. itself. You sure seem to exist in some kind of dream world unrelated to any reality I ever heard of.
The German occupation destroyed Russia's greatest resource, the Russian people themselves, some 35 million of whom were killed in the war. And not randomly, either. It was standard German practice on moving into an occupied town or village to assemble the (non-Jewish) inhabitants and sort them for "labour procurement" - - carpenters, over here! metal-workers, here! Anyone who can read or write? Anyone with post-secondary education? over here. The search for "intellectuals" wasn't really for labour procurement, however. These were the guys who were just taken out and shot. The destruction of the Jews was the destruction of the best part of the Russian and Party intelligensia and that also was not random, it was wholesale. You seem to think all that is made up by inheriting the ruins of Warsaw and Budapest - - boy are you naive!
The great industrial dams and power plants of the Soviet economy were painstakingly and methodically destroyed, not by the happenstance of bombing raids, but on the ground, where every last detail could be attended to to see that nothing would be salvaged.
Your sunny and optimistic fairy tale of how easy the Russians had it is nauseating in the extreme. They were put through a wringer which left them gasping, with a decimated population which had been promised a new life after the war, and instead of a new life, they were forced again to begin preparation from the ruins for a defence against their former allies, now surrounding them with bases and cozying up to their former Nazi persecutors. The outlines of what happened are sort of clarifying but I admit I don't know what the real story is. I know it's probably not the way you say it is.
<<Or does this question answer itself?>>
It should, but for some of us, apparently, it does not.
<<I credit Mattias Rust , who flew a very ordinary aircraft into Moscow and landed on Red Square, reveiling that all of the sacrifices that had been made for the sake of defence were of no practical effect >>
I just don't believe any of that's true, there was a big difference between Mattias Rust and an incoming missile, it's quite possible that nobody wanted to shoot down a two-seater civilian plane (although after Sept. 11, I'm sure that wouldn't be the case) but you are correct in that a discrepancy between the truth and the propaganda, particularly about living standards in the West, could no longer be kept from the people.
We met an American in Russia visiting family in the Ukraine who told us that his uncle was boasting of his dirt-floored farm house and all its primitive amenities and seemed to take it for granted that it was so much better than the appalling conditions under which American farm families were living; the uncle basically threw the kid out of the house when he tried to convince him that the American farmers had indoor plumbing, running hot water and all the real amenities. Just wouldn't believe it. I read of other Russians being very embittered to finally learn how much better the conquered Germans were living than they were themselves. It didn't seem right, particularly in view of the wartime sacrifices and the promises that the leaders had made of the life they would enjoy after the inevitable victory.
I think the Party should have leveled with the people, told them that the sacrifices would have to continue and presented them with a plan for ultimate victory over the West. But how, when the West had, at least temporarily, a nuclear monopoly?
<<their actual safety depended on the peaceful nature of European democracys and all of that sacrifice was demanded to stave off an invasion that no one wated to mount.>>
Are you nuts? You know how many times they'd already been invaded and/or sabotaged by the "peaceful European democracies?" or by the U.S.A. and even Canada? How can you even write that crap with a straight face?