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When Churchill Prepared for a War Against Stalin — The Plan Nobody Believed

In May 1945, while crowds celebrated Victory in Europe, Winston Churchill secretly ordered his military chiefs to plan an attack on the Soviet Union - target date July 1st, 1945. Operation Unthinkable called for British and American forces to launch a surprise offensive against the Red Army, and when his generals told him the numbers didn't work, Churchill proposed rearming 100,000 German Wehrmacht soldiers who had just surrendered. The British Joint Planning Staff assessed the plan as "hazardous" - military language for suicidal. Churchill lost the 1945 election, the plan was buried in classified files, and the British government denied its existence until the documents were finally declassified in 1998. #operationunthinkable #churchillvsstalin #coldwarbegins #ww2history