well. . This post make me think in a much larger way. We ol know dat india signed treaty with former ussr in 1971 by which ussr to help india in case war in every way. . 2days russia is the best buddy of india. So my questn is dat , is dat treaty still exists ? If yes then what r the clauses in dat ? What its current status ?
Errrrrrr........ a quote from my original post?
Anyways.....I will put the things in detail which I am aware of.
My original reply where this excerpts were quoted was inreference to the US-UK treaty.
But it is highly important to dig facts and excerpts from Indo-USSR friendship treaty.
It was no hidden secret that there exists a treaty between india and USSR. During those early days when India showed its back to west due to change in geo-politics and relations with enemies and enemies friends,India was forced to draw a strict political manuever directed towards USSR for its own national security concerns.
If one takes a clear picture of those early days,whole sub-continent and most of Asia was under US dominance,even Sino-US relations were hot.
The main motive came in after the US falsified intelligence (intentional) on PLAAF which led to the India taking the blame in loosing the skirmish(atleast on paper).
If I remember correctly,many in the Nehru gov opposed Nehrus ideologies and its leaning towards west.Unfortunately Nehru was busy bringing his sucessor(Indira) into the cabinet,rather than spending time on national security issues.
Nehru`s was a politician only after Chanakya(only in terms of applying politics to keep himself high) and played a great game to bring Indira to power.In this great game,the pawns were Nanda and heart patient Sastri(whom doctors already told that he wont survive in the next heart attack)
I might have to go a lot of OT to conclude how the steps were paved for Indias foreign policy towards USSR.(But I refrain in doing so,due to time constraints)
But after Sastri became PM,it really benifited India in terms of choosing its own foreign policy instead of relying western (US and brits) suggestions.An unfortunate day led to the death of this heart patient which later rolled the red carpet to Indira(who was trying to cover those dents that happened during her fathers tenure.)
It was highly said during those times, that after Indira became the PM,her first policy amendment was w.r.t USSR. At one instance Indira accepted to offer as many bases to USSR Navy and AF.Later signed a mutual interest treaty which later became a friendship treaty(actual name varry).Under this treaty,India happened to be an ally(under the cover of NAM)of USSR for its own security concerns from US and China. Point to highlight is,Indira`s actions often called for a revenge on China for its betrayal,but were never hihglighted in public domain.
When she first conceived a nuclear program for national security,it was known that US pushed the pakistan to go for nuclear weapons while providing back door support. There was a crucial CIA hand to get pakistan some nuclear warheads from China.(this was a later part)
Under those circumstances,Indira felt the need of teaching pakistan a lesson by splitting it into two.Her intellectualness and wisdom were appreciated after spotting her movements and emergency meetings with USSR top brass to checkmate US and China while IA will have free run over pakistan.
Indira showed her middle finger to Nixon while being friend with Khrushchev.And apart from the so called Friendship treaty that was signed to secure national interests, many other treaties were signed to receive help from USSR incase US and China enters into war and nukes india.USSR signed the treaty to go with any retaliatory measures if US or China bombs or invades india. After the USSR split, the treat was still in effect ,since Russia is the USSR sucessor. and went on renewing spree.So far Russia didnt openly declared its support to India in terms of nuclear retaliation,but this was done recently in 2009. I might have skipped or missed many points as my memory was too compressed
