ABSTRACT
The first significant political event in the life of the country after the war was the election of the Supreme Soviet in February 1946. The electoral campaign was widely covered in the Soviet press, and the newspapers exhibited the moral and political unity of Soviet society, the indissoluble bond of communists and non-party people. War introduced its own system of values in Soviet society. The Soviet economy was to a significant degree militarized even after the war. The attitude of the population toward the communists as responsible officials was an important factor in the development of the political opinion of the masses after the war. Although in the villages during the war and immediately afterward the most common rumors had to do with the dissolution of the collective farms, they were usually accompanied by similar reports of the abolition of the Communist Party, and not only among the rural population.
