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Winston Churchill drew up 'Operation Unthinkable' plans for US and UK to invade Russia
Daily Mirror ^ | 23 Sep 2023 | Alex Croft

Posted on 05/18/2024 10:39:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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allegedly, Churchill felt especially guilty about the Poles who fought for the allies during the war, but would now be ruled by Stalin.P

And Churchill did a lot to make that happen. Representatives of the Polish government in exile were not invited to the conferences at Tehran or Yalta, which determined their country's fate. Churchill agreed to setting Poland's eastern border at the Curzon Line, the territory that Hitler had given Stalin as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Many of the 200,000 Poles fighting in the British Army were from that region. And at Yalta and Potsdam, the Western Allies completed the handover of Poland to the Soviet Union.

41 posted on 05/19/2024 7:30:53 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Good leaders are always prepared for foreseeable contingencies. Poor leaders don’t even consider the foreseeable consequences of their own actions.


42 posted on 05/19/2024 7:50:42 AM PDT by Spok
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This was not an uncommon thought at the time; for anyone.


43 posted on 05/19/2024 9:48:49 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Still waiting for a thank you from the UKvfor saving them 3 times.


44 posted on 05/19/2024 11:09:03 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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Martin Gilbert’s biography explains Churchill’s strategy.


45 posted on 07/23/2024 5:47:48 AM PDT by buridan
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This was not an uncommon thought at the time; for anyone.

We have contingency plans to attack every country on earth, even the UK.

46 posted on 07/23/2024 5:58:42 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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In my job we had to come up with a lot of “risk management” scenarios. 99% of them were ridiculous. Yet, the plan was in the folder for the regulators to review.

(If they ever really read them, they would have seen the line, “If this really happens, go home and be with your kids…because we are screwed.”)

Since no on ever commented on that, I don’t think they were ever read.


47 posted on 07/23/2024 6:28:43 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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