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In orthodox Soviet communist language, Vietnam and India represent a bourgeois-nationalist and a Marxist-Leninist state. A comparison of Soviet relations with India and Vietnam therefore has a significance well beyond the two sets of bilateral relations. Vietnam is of obvious ideological importance as a member of the international socialist community and is one of only three third world members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), the others being Cuba and Mongolia. Soviet access to naval and air facilities at Cam Ranh Bay and Danang represented concrete payoffs to the USSR for its ties to Vietnam. Soviet links with Vietnam have also been an important element in longstanding Soviet attempts to encircle China in Asia.
The Indian act of taking Soviet support while giving little tangible in return is one of the more outstanding feats of the contemporary international scene.1
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© 1992 Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle A. Thayer
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Thakur, R., Thayer, C.A. (1992). Conclusion. In: Soviet Relations with India and Vietnam. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09373-1_9
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