Churchill Pondered War Against Soviets
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Within days of Germany’s World War II defeat, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his aides to draft contingency plans for an Anglo-American invasion of the Soviet Union, a British newspaper reported. Citing documents recently discovered in Britain’s public archives, the Daily Telegraph said the plan, code-named “Operation Unthinkable,” eventually was rejected by Churchill and replaced with a strategy to guard against invasion by Josef Stalin’s Red Army.
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