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Hard evidence has
been discovered that Subhash Chandra Bose was alive atleast till 1946 and did
not die in the August 18, 1945 plane crash as claimed by the British.
The new findings are
based on declassified documents in the Russian military archives in Paddolsk and
from records available in the British archives (under the declassification after
30 years’ rule). These have been discovered by three researchers — Purabi Ray,
Hari Vasudevan and Shobanlal Dutta Gupta — working on the history of the
communist movement in India.
The Russian archives
yielded two important documents. The first was a discussion Joseph Stalin had
with his defence minister, Vorospchilov, and foreign affairs minister, Molotov,
in 1946. This document quotes Stalin and the others discussing plans for the
communist movement in India vis-a-vis Bose. The second document is a report
filed by a Soviet field agent, V.G. Sayadyants, stationed in India, also in
1946. He reported home from Mumbai that "the Soviet Union cannot possibly
work with either Nehru or Gandhi", and that the communist movement in India
"is in a disarray." The report concluded saying that "Bose is the only
hope for Soviet Russia."
The documents from
the British archives also disclose some revealing facts. First, it shows that on
August 17, 1945, a day before the supposed plane crash, Bose had expressed a
keen desire to reach Soviet Russia, to continue the struggle against the
British. Second, another British archive document states that the entire theory
of the plane crash in Taihuku (Japan) was "pre-planned and contrived."
Subsequently, a Japanese newspaper —as late as December 20, 1945 — reported that
Bose was on his way to the Soviet Union and passed through Tokyo. Thirdly, the
only source of information on the ‘crash’ was provided by the British — one from
the British military intelligence, MI2; and the other from the British embassy
in Japan. What is astounding is that even these two reports differed. While the
British embassy report claimed to have clearly identified Bose’s body, the MI2
report was "not sure."
What is even more
mysterious is that the researchers received calls from unidentified persons
asking them to suspend all further inquiries and end the government-funded
research. Work on the project stopped abruptly, around the middle of this year
!! We demand that the findings be made public and the research work continued.
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