Ajanta
2005-06-14 16:24:27 UTC
[Netaji is a common title for the Indian freedom fighter Subhas Bose.]
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Was Stalin responsible for Netaji's death?
By Dipak Basu
M.V. Kamath in his article Netaji an Enigma: His Death a Mystery¹ on
May 29, in Organiser wrote ³Has anyone asked Putin, the current Russian
leader, whether any records are available of those times? And, at this
point of time, would Putin refuse to cooperate? There is no answer.²
I am afraid there is an answer provided by Purabi Roy, a researcher in
the Jadavpur University of Calcutta, who during the early 1990s spent
two years in Russia searching the archives to find out anything related
to Subhas Chandra Bose. Her finding are:
* There is a lot of material on Subhas Bose in the Military Archive in
Tomsk, where the free government of India in Exile (or Azad Hind
government) had a consulate during the Second World War, as the Soviet
Union along with Japan and Germany has recognised the Azad Hind
government. Just a request from the Government of India would be
sufficient for the Russian authority to open that archive. Purabi Roy
wrote to the Government of India about it and as a result her research
was terminated by the Indian government and she could not go back to
Russia again.
* Purabi Roy found out a report by a KGB agent in Bombay, written in
1948 on the political situation in India. The report says, ³..it is not
possible to work with Nehru or Gandhi; we have to use Subhas Bose².
That implies in 1948, Subhas Bose was still alive.
The office of the Prime Minister had refused to release the report made
by Prof. Praful Chakravarty, professor of history in Calcutta
University, made in early 1950s about the disappearance of Subhas Bose.
That report was commissioned by Nehru, but he refused to release it.
The Shah Nawaz Khan Commission and the Chopra Commission had never
visited Russia to investigate
The investigation commission of Justice Mukherjee initiated at the time
of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, is now cut short and Justice
Mukherjee was not allowed to go either to Taiwan or Russia to
investigate. Kamal Pandey, the then Home Secretary, had refused to give
any access to Justice Mukherjee to the documents still in the hands of
the Government of India. The office of the Prime Minister had refused
to release the report made by Prof. Praful Chakravarty, professor of
history in Calcutta University, made in early 1950s about the
disappearance of Subhas Bose. That report was commissioned by Nehru,
but he refused to release it. The Shah Nawaz Khan Commission and the
Chopra Commission had never visited Russia to investigate; nor did they
seek any help from the Soviet authorities.
BBC World Service reported on February 4, 2005 that according to the
Taiwan government, there were no plane crashes at Taipei between
August, 14 and September, 20, 1945; thus Netaji could not have died on
August 18, 1945. On August 18, 1945, invasion of Japan by the US was in
full swing. There were literally hundreds of Allied battleship and
aircraft carriers all around Japan and USA had complete control over
the airspace of Japan. It was impossible for any Japanese military
aircraft to leave Taipei for Tokyo without being attacked by the US.
Why on earth would Netaji like to go back to Tokyo to surrender himself
to the US Army who would have definitely handed him over to the British
to be killed on the spot¹, as demanded by Lord Mountbatten? Given the
fact that Japan had no clash with the USSR during the Second World War,
it was only natural for Netaji to go back to the Soviet Union.
After 1955, when Stalin was denounced in the Soviet Union, and the
victims of Stalin's policy were rehabilitated, there was no reason for
the Soviet authorities to hide the facts about Subhas Bose, who was
most possibly killed by Stalin. The Soviet Union had acknowledged that
Stalin has killed two other Indian freedom fightersAbani Mukherjee,
founder of the Communist Party of India and Varindranath Chattopadhya,
brother of Sarojini Naidu and an associate of Veer Savarkar and who had
attempted to kill M.N. Roy. All of them, just like Netaji, had escaped
to the Soviet Union from the British clutches, but ultimately suffered
at the hands of Stalin as a result. The Indian government has never
asked the Soviet Union in this matter.
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id=83&page=37>
Was Stalin responsible for Netaji's death?
By Dipak Basu
M.V. Kamath in his article Netaji an Enigma: His Death a Mystery¹ on
May 29, in Organiser wrote ³Has anyone asked Putin, the current Russian
leader, whether any records are available of those times? And, at this
point of time, would Putin refuse to cooperate? There is no answer.²
I am afraid there is an answer provided by Purabi Roy, a researcher in
the Jadavpur University of Calcutta, who during the early 1990s spent
two years in Russia searching the archives to find out anything related
to Subhas Chandra Bose. Her finding are:
* There is a lot of material on Subhas Bose in the Military Archive in
Tomsk, where the free government of India in Exile (or Azad Hind
government) had a consulate during the Second World War, as the Soviet
Union along with Japan and Germany has recognised the Azad Hind
government. Just a request from the Government of India would be
sufficient for the Russian authority to open that archive. Purabi Roy
wrote to the Government of India about it and as a result her research
was terminated by the Indian government and she could not go back to
Russia again.
* Purabi Roy found out a report by a KGB agent in Bombay, written in
1948 on the political situation in India. The report says, ³..it is not
possible to work with Nehru or Gandhi; we have to use Subhas Bose².
That implies in 1948, Subhas Bose was still alive.
The office of the Prime Minister had refused to release the report made
by Prof. Praful Chakravarty, professor of history in Calcutta
University, made in early 1950s about the disappearance of Subhas Bose.
That report was commissioned by Nehru, but he refused to release it.
The Shah Nawaz Khan Commission and the Chopra Commission had never
visited Russia to investigate
The investigation commission of Justice Mukherjee initiated at the time
of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, is now cut short and Justice
Mukherjee was not allowed to go either to Taiwan or Russia to
investigate. Kamal Pandey, the then Home Secretary, had refused to give
any access to Justice Mukherjee to the documents still in the hands of
the Government of India. The office of the Prime Minister had refused
to release the report made by Prof. Praful Chakravarty, professor of
history in Calcutta University, made in early 1950s about the
disappearance of Subhas Bose. That report was commissioned by Nehru,
but he refused to release it. The Shah Nawaz Khan Commission and the
Chopra Commission had never visited Russia to investigate; nor did they
seek any help from the Soviet authorities.
BBC World Service reported on February 4, 2005 that according to the
Taiwan government, there were no plane crashes at Taipei between
August, 14 and September, 20, 1945; thus Netaji could not have died on
August 18, 1945. On August 18, 1945, invasion of Japan by the US was in
full swing. There were literally hundreds of Allied battleship and
aircraft carriers all around Japan and USA had complete control over
the airspace of Japan. It was impossible for any Japanese military
aircraft to leave Taipei for Tokyo without being attacked by the US.
Why on earth would Netaji like to go back to Tokyo to surrender himself
to the US Army who would have definitely handed him over to the British
to be killed on the spot¹, as demanded by Lord Mountbatten? Given the
fact that Japan had no clash with the USSR during the Second World War,
it was only natural for Netaji to go back to the Soviet Union.
After 1955, when Stalin was denounced in the Soviet Union, and the
victims of Stalin's policy were rehabilitated, there was no reason for
the Soviet authorities to hide the facts about Subhas Bose, who was
most possibly killed by Stalin. The Soviet Union had acknowledged that
Stalin has killed two other Indian freedom fightersAbani Mukherjee,
founder of the Communist Party of India and Varindranath Chattopadhya,
brother of Sarojini Naidu and an associate of Veer Savarkar and who had
attempted to kill M.N. Roy. All of them, just like Netaji, had escaped
to the Soviet Union from the British clutches, but ultimately suffered
at the hands of Stalin as a result. The Indian government has never
asked the Soviet Union in this matter.
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