Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pashure pehondo, Stalin akanga ari"maererano naService"pa"kukwirira kwebasa rake". Mukati meSoviet Union aionekwa zvikuru somufananidzo wokukunda uye wokuda nyika. Mauto ake aidzora Central neEastern Europe kusvikira kuRwizi rwaElbe. Muna June 1945, Stalin akagamuchira zita rokuti Generalissimus, uye akamira pamusoro peLenin's Mausoleum kuti aone
paredhi yomutambo inotungamirirwa naZhukov kuburikidza neRed Square. Pane imwe mabiko akaitirwa vatungamiriri vemauto, akarondedzera vanhu vokuRussia se"rudzi rwakatanhamara" uye "simba rinotungamirira" mukati meSoviet Union, nguva yokutanga yaakanga atsigira zvakajeka vaRussia kupfuura mamwe marudzi eSoviet. Muna 1946, hurumende yakabudisa "Mabasa Akaunganidzwa" aStalin. Muna 1947, yakabudisa chinyorwa chechipiri chebhuku rake roupenyu, iro rakamurumbidza zvikuru kupfuura rakanga ramutangira. Akataurwa mu"Pravda" zuva nezuva uye mifananidzo yake yakaramba iri kwose kwose pamadziro enzvimbo dzebasa nemisha.