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> Russia helped out india against America in 71

I have come to different conclusion based on reading different things over the years. I am going to present my thoughts and any contradictions are welcome.

I believe India was just an honourable slave of Russia.

During the cold war Russia was exporting revolution to lot of countries, and it succeeded a bit in South America and some parts of Southern Africa. It was close to succeeding in India.
I got this from a tamil blogpost[2] reviewing this book [1], the author of the book was the custodian of Jayaprakash Narayan when he was in jail during the Emergency for 2 years. and he writes about his interactions with Jayaprakash Narayan in this book. Initially when Jayaprakash Narayan was put in Jail, he had no idea why it happened, he was thinking that it would be just a short term arrest, then later seeing big leaders like Morarji Desai being arrested, and also seeing that the KGB funded Indian Communist Party being in full support of the Emergency, he comes to the conclusion that Russia was trying to install a puppet government with Indira at its head.

[1] http://www.amazon.in/JP-Jail-M-G-Devasahayam/dp/8174364293
[2] http://www.jeyamohan.in/6347

Few months back when the Emergency topic was doing its rounds in the MSM, I read another article in a tamil print magazine (sorry can't link). It was an interview with Advani during the Emergency period, in which the interviewer asks Advani, "why did National Herald (Indira congress's official mouth piece), a month back had articles saying Democracy is not good for India, and the next month their articles were praising Democracy, what made them change their tone within a month". Advani's answer was that Sheik Mujibur Rahman was killed in that month. Advani didn't say anything else. The writer of that tamil article gave an explanation that CIA had planned a coup in Bangladesh and assassinated Mujibur Rahman. and Indira was afraid that she would be the next. and the writer concluded that if we should praise anyone for ending the Emergency, it should be US. Indira feared for her life and brought an end to Emergency. There was not much internal pressure within India for her to end the Emergency. Even in the above book it says Jayaprakash Narayan was angry at the people for accepting Emergency so easily. Also read recently that the JRD Tata was also not against the Emergency because government offices were working punctually without bribes, and there were no strikes. so it was only US pressure that made her end the Emergency.

This video from a Russian spy working in India during this period, also adds some credibility to what I am saying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDwibIy-3QM

You might think this all happened in 1975s, but Russia sent a submarine to help India in the war of 1971. Now this may go into Conspiracy theory realm, but I believe this is what could have happened from reading different theories. During the 1965 Pakistan war, India was initially not well prepared, and Lal Bahadur Shastri coming up from humble beginnings, was successful in rising Indian common man and Military (Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was his slogan) against Pakistan, and India was having an upper hand, and it wanted to take back the PoK. At this time he was called to Taskent (Russia) for discussion, and later Russia told that he had signed the agreement to stop at the current LoC, and he died in the night because of heart attack. In India the Congress syndicate headed by Kamaraj [4], selected Indira as the next PM, hoping that she would be under the control of the syndicate. but that went exactly opposite, Kamaraj and other senior Congress leaders, later tried to bring Indira down by splitting congress. Kamaraj even went and made coalition with his rival Rajaji [3], but Indira won the elections, and later she brought Emergency, and Kamaraj died during the Emergency period. So when Russia brought submarines to help India, it was bringing submarines to help its honourable slave nation headed by Indira. If you suspect, why would Russia want to kill Lal Bahadur Shastri, I haven't read any theories giving a reason, most conspiracy theories I read suggest that CIA killed Shastri. My guess is if India had taken PoK back, it would be very close to Tajikistan, part of Soviet Russia, and Russia didn't wish to a have potential rival very close to its border. Russian defence strategy has always been having a large land area as buffer between it and it's potential rivals. It did the same with China too, present day Mongolia was a part of ROC, Russia negotiated with PRC to leave Mongolia as an independent nation. May be PRC leaders were wise enough to know that it had to accept to what Russia demands, which Shastri didn't realize and got killed.

This 3 part series on India-Israel ties also goes into how India under Russia couldn't have it's own foreign policy to it's own detriment.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-india-israel-alliance-part-1-the-arab-world/

[3] http://swarajyamag.com/politics/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-swatantra-party

[4] Kamaraj, this is a person I am most sympathetic about, me being from TN could also be a reason. He spent most of his life for the freedom struggle, hiding away from British, rarely being in home. He was one of the major leader of TN Congress, the other being Rajaji of Swantantra party [3]. Kamaraj was truly a selfless person, and well respected leader. Never married, didn't save anything for himself. There are anecdotes about how he used to rebuke his Mother when she used to ask for small favours because of his CM post. Later Nehru made him the leader of All India Congress syndicate because of his plan to resign his CM post which led to many Congress leaders following suit and resigning their posts. and when he was the syndicate leader, he initially chose Shastri, which turned out to be a wise decision, after Shastri's death, he passed over many senior Congress leaders like Morarji Desai and chose Indira as PM. If what I infer above is true, then he must have been in his death bed, thinking about spending his whole life to free India from British, but later handing it over to Russia because of a bad decision :( Sadly he didn't live long enough to see Indira remove Emergency, and lose in the next election to Jayaprakash Narayan.