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Operation Unthinkable: Winston Churchill’s Forgotten Plan To Invade the Soviet Union

Key Point: Operation Unthinkable was truly unthinkable. In the spring of 1945, Winston Churchill asked his military chiefs to prepare a secret plan. That was nothing new. The hyper-energetic Churchill ...
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Operation Unthinkable Would Have Resulted in a War With the Soviets

Winston Churchill may be viewed as the UK’s greatest prime minister, and it is questionable whether anyone else could have led the British people through the Second World War. Yet, when it came to ...
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The secret 1945 plan to turn German troops against the Soviet Union

After the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, British planners examined a controversial proposal known as Operation Unthinkable, a potential conflict against the Soviet Union that could have drawn former ...