AH Challenge: Peoples Republic of India

Xen

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Your challenge is to create a plausible way for India to become a pro-Soviet communist Republic, allied to Moscow during the Cold War. Even more importantly make India Russia's closest and friendliest ally.
 
Might be better if we have a stronger radical element in the Indian National Congress, they were pretty pro-Soviet and for planned economy as it was. Say Communist entryists come to dominate the Congress, a popular front is formed with left-wing parties and through sheer size and influence clamps down on democratic opposition. Now this might make a Mexican one-party democracy more likely but say the leaders are quite ballsy, after several years of pseudo-democratic rule the Popular Front unites into a "People's Congress" super-party along Soviet lines and enforce through force a new People's Republic?
 
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