Your challenge, is to create a Communist India, with a POD of 1914. India can be independent, but also part of a greater 'Communist Commonwealth', or pulling a Yugoslavia with the Soviet Union.
Your challenge, is to create a Communist India, with a POD of 1914. India can be independent, but also part of a greater 'Communist Commonwealth', or pulling a Yugoslavia with the Soviet Union.
Have Communists ever overthrown a left wing government?
Your challenge, is to create a Communist India, with a POD of 1914. India can be independent, but also part of a greater 'Communist Commonwealth', or pulling a Yugoslavia with the Soviet Union.
The problem is that Congress, the main Indian political party, for most of the 20th century is both ubiquitous and left wing. Unless they turn right, it's going to be hard to organise resistance on the left they can't co-op. In my rather uninformed opinion, you'd need to butterfly Congress or make them substantially more right wing in order to give the communists a chance. Have Communists ever overthrown a left wing government?
Have Communists ever overthrown a left wing government?
India WAS Soviet-aligned. To my knowledge, the four Indo-Pak Wars represent one of the few major triumphs of a Soviet arsenal over American arms in the field.Strengthen relations between the INC and the Soviet Union?
India WAS Soviet-aligned. To my knowledge, the four Indo-Pak Wars represent one of the few major triumphs of a Soviet arsenal over American arms in the field.
In October 1917 Vladimir Lenin organised a coup that toppled the Russian government of Alexander Kerensky's Socialist Revolutionaries.
India WAS Soviet-aligned. To my knowledge, the four Indo-Pak Wars represent one of the few major triumphs of a Soviet arsenal over American arms in the field.
Despite pretensions otherwise, virtually nobody in the NAM was genuinely nonaligned, nor did it ever really pretend to be an effective 'third way' in the Cold War. India is no exception.Wrong. India was part of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Despite pretensions otherwise, virtually nobody in the NAM was genuinely nonaligned, nor did it ever really pretend to be an effective 'third way' in the Cold War. India is no exception.