What does the democratic impulse of war mean? How did it manifest itself?

The democratic impulse of the war is the processes that emerged after the end of the Second World War. People saw democratic life (before the war, everyone knew only what they told about Western countries) and counted on it: the intelligentsia wanted to weaken the dictatorship, the military wanted more rights and freedoms, the villagers wanted the opportunity to have a private economy.

The Stalinist leadership did everything possible to suppress the impulse and return the 30s, which was possible with the help of massive repressions, which began in response to the desire of people to change their lives, to make it easier.