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I'm from Coimbtore, Tamilnadu. Me & my sister loved reading Misha in the early 90's. Some of the stories where deep. Is there an online archive for those magazines? P.S. I'm writing this via kindle & I didn't take any effort to search for it. Edit:typo
Here you go :) https://mirtitles.org/2018/11/11/misha-stack/
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While I think Russian lit is indeed beloved in India, Nabokov is perhaps yet to get his due appreciation, perhaps Solzhenitsyn also.
I doubt that works of Solzhenitsyn has any value as a literature. He was a tool of political propaganda against USSR. There're numerous lies and exaggerations in his books. In 20-50 years everybody will forget him for good.
This is really fascinating. Because even though I am an Indian I didn't know the Soviet Union and India were that close. I wonder if any Indian school books mention this.
It's good to know the history here. For most of 50s and 60s we were roughly equidistant between US and USSR. It was the crass support for Pakistan's Ayub Khan by Nixon and Kissinger before the Bangladesh war in 1971, which forced India to shift a little closer to the Soviet Union. Both Nixon and Kissinger had a visceral hatred of India and Indira Gandhi - see [1]. The USSR did help us with arms and with votes in the…
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India did sometimes try to be in a neutral position with respect to both the West and the Soviets, for eg: the Indian Nuclear program had large support from the Canadians. Indian space program had help from the Americans and the French as well as the Soviets.
Absolutely but during the Cold War you had to be either for the US/NATO or Soviet Union/Warsaw pact. The West was terrified of Russia getting a naval base on the Indian Ocean. Any country that tried to be neutral was considered suspicious.
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While I think Russian lit is indeed beloved in India, Nabokov is perhaps yet to get his due appreciation, perhaps Solzhenitsyn also.
I doubt that works of Solzhenitsyn has any value as a literature. He was a tool of political propaganda against USSR. There're numerous lies and exaggerations in his books. In 20-50 years everybody will forget him for good.
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Absolutely but during the Cold War you had to be either for the US/NATO or Soviet Union/Warsaw pact. The West was terrified of Russia getting a naval base on the Indian Ocean. Any country that tried to be neutral was considered suspicious.
There was a third path which India did follow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement was part and parcel "Soviet lite".
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I think, what made them special was the very smooth, glossy printing, and extremely vivid colours. If you take american comics of a similar time, eg something like Archies: Archies colours look pale and faded, compared with the bright contrasts and lush colours of the Misha.
And the smell was amazing too :)