[Buckeye McFrog]

Indian-Soviet ties were very close back then. Talk to any Indian engineer or software consultant over age 50 and the odds are pretty good he did some graduate studies in the USSR.

[ravager]

Highly unlikely. Even at the height of cold war, there were FAR more Indians in UK, Canada and US then there were in USSR. Back in the day UK was the major destination for Indians to go for higher studies. USSR, not so much because of cultural and linguistic reasons ....and the fact that India was not a communist country and was out of the Warsaw Pact.