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In the post-Second World War scenario friends in war did not remain friends in peace. Examine the truth of this view in the period of your study.

  • UPSC 1999
  • The World after World War II

The Grand Alliance of the United States, Britain, and the USSR was always a marriage of convenience against a common enemy, and its unravelling within two years of victory shows how thin that convenience actually was.

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