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The '''East Indies Crisis,''' (Malay: Krisis Hindia Timur) also known as the Archipelago war, War of liberation and in the Netherlands as the Indian war (Dutch: '''Indische oorlog'''), or Oostelijke acties (Eastern actions) was a conflict fought all over the Indonesian archipelago, on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Malay peninsula, Java and Celebs. It was fought from 1960 up to the fall of Batavia on the 11th of November 1976. It was the 2nd and last of major uprisings across what was then the Dutch east indies and involved the Netherlands, Dutch East Indies and was supported by Nieuw Nederlandt, Taulandt, Kaap Republiek, and initially by Britain. Facing the Dutch & its allies was the “Liberation movement” supported by Russia. The war by some is considered a proxy conflict between Britain and Russia in the later stages of the cold war. Yet in the Netherlands, it’s viewed as a separate event that while heavily influenced by the cold war stands on its own. Yet after 16 years of fighting the war concluded with a new nation that was decisively pro-Russian, the East Indies Federation. It is noted that this was the first real televised war with people across the world but (mainly across the Dutch world) seeing the conflicts every day on their TVs. It was a conflict that was brutal and shaped entire generations and the fates of all nations involved in one way or another.