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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1534585474910","data":"I suppose it worked out in Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's favour that the name of Hitler is not as reviled as it should be in India. Hitler's name, in India, is used to refer to a strict disciplinarian instead of a mass murderer who subjected an entire religious community to torture and death. <\/p>Nationalists today will puff their chest up proudly and say he did the right thing when it comes to fighting for the Independence of our nation, but intellectuals have constantly debated his actions for the decades to come. Bose was what every young man and woman of the time had to be in an India under control of the British: a nationalist who longed to see an India free from the yoke of the British empire. When the second World War broke out, and after the mass extraction at Dunkirk, the Netaji traveled to Germany in 1941 to seek help from Nazis in order to drive the British out of India. <\/p>The Nazis, who believed in the superiority of their race and genes, only saw a means to damage the largest British colony in the world and agreed to help Netaji, establishing a radio station from which he broadcasted nightly. By May 1942, the only time Hitler and Bose met, it had become clear that the Japanese advancement in the South East Asian sector meant the Germans could focus their war efforts in Europe and look further North towards Russia ,who was giving them the fight of their lives. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1534585474912","data":"Chandra Bose identified strongly with the Axis powers, a fact for which I have a difficult time digesting his legacy, but his goal was to liberate India. Perhaps he had grown tired of Mahatma Gandhi's efforts, and I don't exactly blame him for wanting to use an armed force to take over the country instead of Gandhi's pacifist ideology, one that would go on to inspire Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. I suppose it was lucky that our country was formed on the backs of a leader so steadfast in his opposition to violence, he stood in the way of religious rioters and dared them to kill him instead of someone who believed in a different god than them. <\/p>Despite Bose's alignment with fascists, ironically the kind of fascists that would have killed him for the colour of his skin, he remained a popular figure during the freedom struggle. He gave us the 'Jai Hind' cry that still resonates to this day, and talk to the average Indian citizen about Bose and they'll talk to you about their admiration to the man who rubbed shoulders with the most reviled man in History. <\/p>But it is history now, back then it was time for desperate measures, or so he believed. I believe that fascists, Nazis in particular, need to be crushed wherever they appear, but it has always troubled me when I think of the Netaji's choice: how desperate a man could have been to go to the enemy of all humanity to bargain for our freedom. Would we really have been a free country had Nazis taken over our country?<\/p>In a way, I'm glad the Netaji failed, but I still remember him for his peerless dedication to the nation. But if it were up to me, I would rather die a slave than be one to the Nazis. <\/p>"}]

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