Churchill Pondered War Against Soviets
From Times Wire Reports
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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