Posted on 11/09/2014 10:16:24 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Winston Churchill urged the United States to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to win the Cold War, a newly released document reveals.
The previously unseen memorandum from the FBI archives details how Britain’s wartime leader made his views known to a visiting American politician in 1947.
Churchill believed a pre-emptive strike on Stalin’s Russia might be the only way to stop Communism conquering the West.
The note, written by an FBI agent, reports that Churchill urged Right-wing Republican Senator Styles Bridges to persuade President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack which would ‘wipe out’ the Kremlin and make the Soviet Union a ‘very easy problem’ to deal with.
The Russians would have been defenceless against a nuclear attack at that time – they did not successfully test their own atomic bomb until 1949.
Britain and the Soviet Union had been allies in the Second World War until 1945, the year Churchill lost office as Prime Minister. But he was one of the first international statesmen to recognise the post-war threat posed by the USSR, and in 1946 made a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, about an ‘iron curtain’ having descended across Europe as Joseph Stalin consolidated his grip on the eastern half of the continent.
The FBI document shows Churchill’s belligerence towards Britain’s former wartime ally ran so deep that he was prepared to tolerate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians in a nuclear strike.
The memo claims Churchill ‘stated that the only salvation for the civilisation of the world would be if the President of the United States would declare Russia to be imperilling world peace and attack Russia’. The note continues: ‘He pointed out that if an atomic bomb could be dropped on the Kremlin, wiping it o
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Where is Dan Rather and his typewriter?
I knew I liked Churchill.
We totally could have destroyed Stalin in the 40s, and should have.
Would such a "butterfly-like" effect have been triggered by a strike in 1947, that the communists would have been prevented from taking power of the US in 2008?
He was obviously quite correct. One good nuke on the Kremlin and millions of lives would have been saved. Even today, the heirs of the Communist regime in Moscow are still out raping and killing. Communism destroyed that country and rendered most Russians into chauvinists and happy slaves who don’t care how bad they live so long as they don’t have to take responsibility for their own lives.
Bad idea.
Truman gutted the armed forces, especially the Army, after 1945, to the extent that we had a major problem handling one third world country’s invasion of another in Korea. Britain was in worse shape, and we hadn’t even started building NATO yet. I think it’s ludicrous to think we could have handled the Red Army rolling westward.
The only way such a sneak attack could have worked is if it had decapitated the Soviet system and USSR had disintegrated into chaos. That’s possible, but I think any such attack in 1947 would have been a very bad idea.
It’s highly possible. Obama is the product of what happens after decades of Russian subversion in the West. Obama’s self-proclaimed “mentor” Frank Marshall Davis has a rather thick FBI file.
Well that’s nice, considering Russia pretty much bailed Britain’s butts out during WWII. Germany’s ill-fated decision to invade Russia took so much pressure off of Britain.
Fathers tend to be rather strong mentors, self-proclaimed or otherwise.
Sounds like Patton and Winnie were on the same page.
>>He was obviously quite correct. One good nuke on the Kremlin and millions of lives would have been saved. <<
Last number I heard (from many years ago) was Stalin killed 8 million Soviet people. Was it not he who said “a single death is a tragedy — a million deaths is a statistic?”
We should have nuked kenya just for giggles
“Well that’s nice, considering Russia pretty much bailed Britain’s butts out during WWII.”
Hardly. Yes, “Germany’s ill-fated decision to invade Russia took so much pressure off of Britain,” but Russia was all for a German invasion of England and as much, if not more, of an enemy of England as the Nazis.
Russia didn’t “bail” anyone’s butts out but their own, and they would have fallen but for American supplies. The fact that the Russian front helped England is happenstance.
Plus, Stalin had plans to attack Germany — Hitler struck first, but the end result was going to be the same no matter who executed their plan of attack first.
Russia started the war with Germany when they signed the Non-Aggression Pact.
Stalin knew it would start the war in the West.
And most of the Russian war deaths were due to Stalin’s incompetence.
Well that’s nice, considering Russia pretty much bailed Britain’s butts out during WWII. Germany’s ill-fated decision to invade Russia took so much pressure off of Britain.
Russia didn’t bail out anyone. They fought like hell to keep from going under. Winter and the USA saved their a$$e$ after Germany attacked them. If anything the USA bailed them both out with our amazing productive capacity and security behind two oceans.
Maybe Churchill was upset that Stalin reneged on the "Percentages Agreement" (a rather naive plan of Churchill's to divide Eastern Europe into Soviet and British spheres of influence).
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