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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    How would his relations with India's Muslim population have been?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    That makes sense. What kind of arrangement did Bose want for India? A federal one?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Installing a Chinese puppet/client regime seems like a better option for Russia, no?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Why stop with Korea and Manchuria and not kick Japan out of all of China?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    That makes sense. The only exception might be if Afghanistan enters WWI on the CP side and Russia actually survives WWI and avoids Bolshevization, correct? Also, off-topic, but what about a non-Communist Russia fighting Japan in the 1930s or 1940s in order to liberate both China and Korea from...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Excellent analysis, Steve! Anyway, what about a more limited Russo-British partition of Afghanistan at the Hindu Kush?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Would it really?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Paratroopers, as with the Nazis in Crete in 1941?
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    But the idea of the Russians building goodwill in India by liberating them from British rule is not 100% ASB. I agree that it's unlikely, but with the right Russian leadership, it could work. One could think that Germany expanding up to the Urals was likewise ASB, and yet Nazi Germany wanted to...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    I suspect that Russia might want to give India more Muslims so that it could more easily play divide-and-conquer in India after independence: Play the Muslims off against the Hindus for influence and vice versa. But if the Hindus are not going to take the bait, then maybe Russia would want to...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    @stevep What are your thoughts on Russia making a Molotov-Ribbentrop-style deal with Indian nationalists (especially the Subhas Chandra Bose types) to partition Afghanistan between Russia and India as a part of the Russian struggle for Indian independence? They could portray it as both Russia...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Good point about nuking Baku. That should hurt Russia a lot since that's where Russia gets a lot of its oil. Also good point about tactical uses of nukes. As for Russia ruling over millions of Muslims, they'll simply claim that their own rule over Muslims is progressive while that of the British...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Though Britain's options for nuking Russia are rather limited. The parts of Russia that it can nuke don't have that many Russians, after all. Imagine the outcry when Russia's Muslim colonial subjects in Central Asia get nuked by Britain in response to Russia's military intervention in India, for...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Well, Yeah, I was thinking of real life's division here: An independent Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Maybe create a conflict between Pakistan and India over Kashmir in order to make the two of them distracted and dependent on Russia as a peace broker and mediator.
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    If Russia really wanted to play divide and rule, it could partition India into several independent states/countries.
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    Sure, Russia would want to put someone whom it can rely on in charge of India. However, it would also want to make sure that its choice would actually be reasonably acceptable to the Indian population. Else, there could be a risk of future Indian uprisings and revolutions against Russia's chosen...
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    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like?

    How would a mid-20th century war between a non-Communist Russia and Britain in order to liberate British India look like? I don't care whether the Russia in question is Tsarist, Fascist, Socialist Revolutionary, or something else, just so long as it decides to ally with Indian nationalists in...
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