Parajumble - Foreign Policy and Soviet Union

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph:

A. Trade protocols were signed, the dollar as the medium of exchange was ignored, trade was denominated in rupees and the exchange rate between the two countries was to be fixed outside the ambit of free markets. B. A young India, some years after independence fashioning her foreign policy of non-alignment, found it prudent to stay close to the former Soviet Union. C. Once upon a time there was a superpower named Soviet Union that attracted apprehension of the global aspirations of the other superpower, the US. D. One way of doing this was to evolve a bilateral relations in trade that could be called upon to provide a buffer against the arm-twisting by the US.