Nehru’s fascination with the Communist world in general and the USSR, in particular, was seen from his presidential address to the 49th session of the Indian National Congress in April 1936: I am convinced that the only key to the solution of the world’s problems and of India’s problems lies in socialism… It means a new civilization, radically different from the present capitalist order. Some glimpse we can have of this new civilization in the territories of the USSR… I look upon that great and fascinating unfolding of a new order and a new civilization as the most promising feature of our
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