People here somehow think by improving relations with Russia it will block everything to India which is a mere fantasy.Indo Russian Relations are too strong to be effected by Pakistan.We did the right thing to Soviets after all they played a huge rule in 71 fiasco and they paid the price on it.Today Soviet Union does not exit anymore.
This would be a very simplistic view.... USSR was bound to break, AF war resulted in it to break a little earlier...Actually the fall of Berlin War was symbolic, the problem or solution was in place much earlier...
Few links you might wanna read upon...
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Why Did the Soviet Union Break Up | Why Guides
In short AF war did soviet union is big over statement....
Regarding your second point about Russia will block everything to India is very true, however understand one thing that US cannot simply sell everything state of art to India and deny the same to you and still manage to have good relations with you...right??? So in short if you had good relations with Russia they would not have stopped selling state of art weapons to India but would not have blocked/stopped selling anything state of art to you....China is another potential Indian adversary yet they sell almost everything to them right???
Now if you look at the equation....the major arms supplier are ready to do biz with India
- US
- Russia
- Israel
- UK, Germany, France etc etc
However Pakistan missed on both
- Russia
- Israel
and in both the cases its your diplomatic actions(for good or for bad) that are responsible....India do have a role but to some extent....
I agree with Patriot and it's really what I am pointing to as well, namely that the Indian has little to do with relations between Pakistan and Russia - these relationships have their own logic and dynamic and the Indian is tangential to this.
Well India do have more then little role to play here however i agree with your larger point about dynamics involved...We cached in when you were making your own diplomatic gestures towards US(read anti-russia actions) and towards arab world(read anti-israel actions)....
I mean just look at the past actions...
- Pakistan poked their nose in cold war mess and went overboard with AF war...Result bad realtions with Russia....
- Pakistan poked their nose in 6 day war with Israel and results are in front of us...
Now if we compare this with India, today Egypt and Israel are friendly nations along with the whole Arab world including Palestine....Russia is our strongest partner and US joining in as well......