Sonia Gandhi: Indira Gandhi took India- Russia bond to new level

Moscow, April 10: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday remembered how then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi took the Indian-Russian relationship to a new level during Bangladeshs War of Independence and the then USSR stood like a rock with India.She also stressed that India Gandhi "was an influential and tireless global voice for peace and disarmament.""Indira Gandhi took the Indo-Soviet link to a new level altogether, giving it solid strategic content as well. At India s moment of grave crisis in 1971, leading up to and during the Bangladesh s War of Independence, the USSR stood like a rock with India, something that Indira Gandhi never forgot." Gandhi said in her address at the Indira Gandhi Exhibition in Moscow, organised marking the Indira Gandhi s Centenary Anniversary.