INDIA IN WORLD WAR II
The victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War over Nazi Germany and its decisive contribution to the joint struggle of the coalition allies in World War II protected and saved not only the peoples of the USSR and Europe, but also other countries from the Nazi threat. One of them was India, which at that time had to solve a difficult and controversial task: to fight for liberation from British colonialism and at the same time participate in the war against Hitler's fascism and Japanese militarism. Keywords: Nehru, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Soviet Union, England, Munich Agreement, struggle against fascism, Indian independence. On September 3, 1939, colonial India was declared a belligerent State by the British Government without the consent of its political parties. India's involvement in the World War provoked protests from the Indian public in the form of anti-war, anti-imperialist demonstrations and strikes. On September 14, 1939, the leadership of the leading Indian National Congress (Congress) party issued a statement condemning fascism and Nazism, an act of German aggression against Poland [Prasad, 1985, p. 825, 826]. In connection with the outbreak of World War II, one of the spiritual leaders of India, Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, made an accusation against Hitler's Germany. He wrote: "The whole world is deeply shocked by the news of a new manifestation of arrogant injustice on the part of the current ruler of Germany, but this is only the logical conclusion of the campaign of intimidation of the weak, which began with the persecution of Jews in the Reich and ended with violence committed against a brave, truly liberal country-Czechoslovakia... But I do not lose hope that humanity will still prevail and in a world washed by blood streams, all the oppressed will forever find freedom, ending poverty and poverty" [Tagore, 1982, pp. 348-349]. CONGRESS ON EVENTS ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II In the years leading up to the Second World War, Indians clo ... Read more
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