The Demands of Total War in the Soviet Union Had

The demands of total war in the Soviet Union had encouraged independent initiative and led to relaxed Communist oversight, a development that Stalin

A) encouraged in his five-year plan of 1946 through a series of decentralization measures designed to increase production levels.
B) praised as proof of worker flexibility and self-empowerment, two linchpins of socialism.
C) ruthlessly reversed through increased repression, aggressive production goals, and a still more radical collectivization of agriculture.
D) reversed with the gradual adoption of the command and control procedures regularly exercised in the ever-growing Soviet army.