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India and the Soviet Union had cooperative and friendly relations. [1] During the Cold War (1947–1991), India did not choose sides between the Capitalist Bloc and the Communist Bloc and was a leading country of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Relations ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Relations between the Soviet Union and India did not suffer much during the right-wing Janata Party's coalition government in the late 1970s, although India did move to establish better economic and military relations with Western countries. To counter these efforts by India to diversify its relations, the Soviet Union proffered additional ...
In the months before the war, both Pakistan and India attempted to shore up diplomatic support. On 9 August 1971, India signed a twenty-year co-operation treaty with the Soviet Union, [14] followed by a six-nation tour of Europe and USA by Indira Gandhi in October.
The Indo–Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation was a treaty signed between India and the Soviet Union in August 1971 that specified mutual strategic cooperation. This was a significant deviation from India's previous position of non-alignment during the Cold War [1] and was a factor in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.
Following the Russo-Persian War (1722–1723) Russia briefly occupied the west side of the Caspian Sea. About 1734 another move was planned, which provoked the Bashkir War (1735–1740). Once Bashkiria was pacified, Russia's southeastern frontier was the Orenburg line roughly between the Urals and the Caspian Sea.
[1] [3] Aware of the importance of India to the British, Russian efforts in the region often had the aim of extorting concessions from them in Europe, [2] [4] [5] but after 1801, they had no serious intention of directly attacking India. [6] [2] Russian war plans for India that were proposed but never materialised included the Duhamel and ...
24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ... began the war by claiming Russia’s neighbour needed to be “demilitarised and de-Nazified ... by Russia and draw the alliance into a much larger ...
Britain feared that Russia planned to invade India and that this was the goal of Russia's expansion in Central Asia, while Russia continued its conquest of Central Asia. [37] Indeed, multiple 19th-century Russian invasion plans of India are attested, including the Duhamel and Khrulev plans of the Crimean War (1853–1856), among later plans ...