"Operation Unthinkable" Churchill’s top secret plan to attack the Soviet Empire was scheduled for 1 July 1945. British, US, Polish and German forces were to attempt to liberate East Germany and Poland and bring Stalin back to the conference table. If they did not succeed, Allied forces would be sucked into a Third World War. How close did Britain come to Armageddon in 1945?
Russia was always the target on the way to global domination
A podcast of a talk given at The National Archives examining how close Britain came to Armageddon in 1945
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