Girilal Jain

Three main points need to be kept in view in a discussion of the background against which Indo-Soviet relations have developed. First, Jawaharlal Nehru enunciated the policy of non-alignment and took the initiative for the development of Indo-Soviet friendship at a time when Stalin regarded India as a semi-colony and the late Prime Minister himself as a British stooge and when he hardly took any interest in Southern Asia.

• Girilal Jain |
• November-December 2025 |
• Strategic Analysis

Of the members of the America-Russia-China triangle, the Soviet Union is the least enthusiastic about its existence. It is open to question whether it is as obsessed as it is said to be with the historic memories of the golden hordes who devastated Russian lands, and whether it equates the Chinese with the dreaded Mongol invaders of previous centuries. But there can be little doubt that it fears a Sino-US collusion against itself.

• Girilal Jain |
• September 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis