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Article: The loser: India in the nineties.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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NO NON-COMMUNIST country has been more traumatized by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War than India. Until the endgame began to unfold in the late 1980s, India had played the Cold War deftly. It enjoyed all the benefits of a de facto strategic alliance with the Soviets while giving little in return. The Soviet Union was the ultimate guarantor of Indian security, the supplier of cheap weapons that fed India's then grandiose military ambitions, and a huge, captive market for shoddy Indian consumer goods. For all this economic and military generosity, Moscow counted on New Delhi's support, or at least its silence, on major issues such as the Soviet ...