Operation Unthinkable
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 Soviet Union | ||||||
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 Winston Churchill Bernard Montgomery Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur |
Joseph Stalin Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky | ||||||
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Operation Unthinkable was a codename plan by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to attack the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe in hope of getting rid of Soviet/communist influence in the East, right after World War II ended in Europe. The plan was never done and cancelled by high-ranking generals from both the United Kingdom & United States.
Winston Churchill feared the Soviets would invade the West & communism in general. So in May 1945, he proposed this plan with U.S. President Harry Truman and other generals from both US & UK. They didn't accept because: the risk was high, the Soviets outnumbered them and public opinion wouldn't accept such massive war since they just got out of World War II in Europe plus a betrayal of the Western Allies since they cooperated with the Soviets in most of the war. If done, it would be happening on 1 July 1945 (over a month after WWII) with British, American and rearmed Wehrmacht troops attacking the Soviet Union.
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Notes
- ↑ Zickel & Keefe 1991, p. 697.
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