I remember writing about this a few weeks back, but immediately after nazi germany capitulated and the allies were pivoting to finish of Japan, Stalin ordered the demobilization of teachers, construction workers, farmers, doctors, etc. to begin immediately helping the reconstruction efforts across the war-torn eastern front.

The great patriotic war was a gruesome defensive war that had brought the best and worst out of the Soviet peoples in the name of defending their motherland from the genocidal fascists. Any idea of conflict beyond that after such a war was unthinkable.