Thread by @sheshapatangi1

Four Nehru things out of Plenty which you are not aware…

1 Pandit Nehru has always nursed the Communist Party of India with the fondness of an old woman who gave birth to her first and only child at an advanced age – Sita Ram Goel.

2 In September 1948, Nehru went to London

to attend a Commonwealth conference. On his return, he wrote to Patel that “even Lady Mountbatten was worried about” and “Members of the Parliament spoke about” Patel’s crackdown on communist leaders. In the same letter, he pointed out to Sardar that regarding RSS there was

‘”a widespread impression in England that they are Fascist communal-minded people”. So at this juncture removing the ban on RSS, he wrote to Patel, would make an impression that Indian state was encouraging “certain Fascist elements in India”.
Except Edwina, Nehru never gave

the name of any of the “Members of Parliament” who complained about the crackdown of communist leaders or those who expressed concern about the RSS.
When in London, Edwina had told Nehru “about a proposal to hold a Conference in Calcutta under the auspices of the Women’s

International Democratic Federation”. When the matter was referred to the Home Ministry, H V R Iyengar, secretary of the ministry, prepared a long note on the nature of this federation and the consequences that would follow if the conference was allowed. Nehru forwarded the

note to Edwina Mountbatten along with a long letter dated 11 November 1948, expressing his own helplessness.
In this letter written by PM of India to Edwina in an apologetic tone, he reminded her how on previous occasions like during ‘South East Asia Students’ Conference’ he

had bravely withstood the objections and conducted it. But now he was helpless. He then pleaded with her reasserting his love for communism, “You know that I have had strong leanings towards Communism and have many friends among Communists.“

3 When Indian embassy was opened at

the Soviet Union and Nehru’s home tutored sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit was made it’s first ambassador, the Soviets did not even bother to supply furniture to the embassy and her repeated requests to get an audience with Stalin were ignored.
Ultimately, India had to get the

furniture for its embassy in Moscow from Stockholm, incurring heavy expenditure. Questions regarding this humiliation & wasteful expenditure imposed on the Indian embassy by the Soviets were raised in the Parliament.
“How a house has to be furnished in Moscow, of course,

honourable members do not realise,” said Nehru, the internationalist, pointing out that it would be heavily expensive to airlift furniture from India. Alternatively, the Soviet Union itself could provide the furniture but right now Soviet people “are building dams, reservoirs

and factories and the rest which they consider important”. So it is not easy to get these “small accessories of life”. Of course, czarist furniture is available but they are expensive. So we need to buy even tables and chairs for the embassy from Stockholm.

4 Nehru adored Stalin. In 1953, when Stalin died Nehru passed a resolution in the Indian Parliament to mourn the death of the most cruel mass murderer in the history of humanity. He called Stalin as one who was “more than the head of the State” and as “a man who favoured peace”

and described his own generation of Indians as “children of his age”.

5 Russia is a large country and India is a large country. Therefore, Russia=India. Next, Russia is a large agricultural country and India is a large agricultural country. Therefore, Russia=India.

Russia has large peasant population which was poor. India also has a large peasant population which is still poor. To solve this poverty problem, India must take inspiration from the Communist Revolution. Like I said, you can never go wrong with this kind of “reasoning.”

If it looks like an 8th class student’s writing, you are wrong.. It was written in Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches And Impressionsby Nehru when he was 38.
Nehru – A deeply flawed individual who unfortunately also was India’s first and longest reigning prime minister.

He was no intellectual romanticist but a power-hungry leader who was willingly afflicted by Marxist virus. He could project himself as a democratic person through the choicest of the words though he did everything to subvert democracy in India.
#NeechNehru
#VANDEMATARAM