Even if WWII caused a huge number of deaths among Russians, the consequence of WWII for Russia and the Soviet Union was that they became immediately richer than ever in their entire history.
At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union incorporated a few whole countries, the Baltic countries and large parts from its other neighbors, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, also some Japanese islands.
Besides these huge occupied territories, the Soviet Union stole huge amounts from the Eastern European countries occupied by it. A large number of German factories have been taken and moved piece by piece in Russia, where they constituted the basis of many Soviet industries after the war.
In all the other East European countries, especially during the first 2 decades after WWII, the Soviet Union continued to steal every year much of the useful production of various agricultural products and mineral resources, usually under the camouflage of mixed companies, partially owned by the Soviet Union and by the local country, but in which the Russians dictated, with the support of the Soviet army, which still occupied those countries.
Several East European countries had to pay huge war reparations to the Soviet Union, even if the history of the war was completely opposite from what the Russians claimed, i.e. it was Russia who attacked and occupied parts of those countries at the beginning of WWII and not the other way around. Nonetheless, the victims of the Russian invasions not only lost large territories, but they have also paid war reparations for defending themselves, continuously for about 20 years after WWII.
So yes for Russia, with the help of their US & British allies, WWII had unbelievably good consequences, better than any of the other wars initiated by Russia.
Of course the beneficiaries of all the wealth stolen from the neighbors of the Soviet Union were not the many millions of simple Soviet citizens, but only the communist leaders and their families, who have always secretly had access to many luxuries that were completely forbidden for normal people.
At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union incorporated a few whole countries, the Baltic countries and large parts from its other neighbors, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, also some Japanese islands.
Besides these huge occupied territories, the Soviet Union stole huge amounts from the Eastern European countries occupied by it. A large number of German factories have been taken and moved piece by piece in Russia, where they constituted the basis of many Soviet industries after the war.
In all the other East European countries, especially during the first 2 decades after WWII, the Soviet Union continued to steal every year much of the useful production of various agricultural products and mineral resources, usually under the camouflage of mixed companies, partially owned by the Soviet Union and by the local country, but in which the Russians dictated, with the support of the Soviet army, which still occupied those countries.
Several East European countries had to pay huge war reparations to the Soviet Union, even if the history of the war was completely opposite from what the Russians claimed, i.e. it was Russia who attacked and occupied parts of those countries at the beginning of WWII and not the other way around. Nonetheless, the victims of the Russian invasions not only lost large territories, but they have also paid war reparations for defending themselves, continuously for about 20 years after WWII.
So yes for Russia, with the help of their US & British allies, WWII had unbelievably good consequences, better than any of the other wars initiated by Russia.
Of course the beneficiaries of all the wealth stolen from the neighbors of the Soviet Union were not the many millions of simple Soviet citizens, but only the communist leaders and their families, who have always secretly had access to many luxuries that were completely forbidden for normal people.