Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Assertion (A): The communist approach to the Second World War changed after the Soviet Union joined the conflict on the Allied side in 1941.

Reason (R): The communists thereafter described the conflict as a “people’s war”, advocated industrial peace and dissociated themselves from the Quit India Movement.

  1. A is false, but R is true.
  2. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. A is true, but R is false.
  4. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
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