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Post by Buckeye Dale on May 2, 2022 10:11:32 GMT -5

Never grow a wishbone where a backbone ought to be.

We can disagree without being disagreeable.

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Post by Panama pfRedd on May 2, 2022 10:55:36 GMT -5

Good stuff. Thanks.

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Post by DrSchadenfreude on May 2, 2022 11:06:24 GMT -5

#13 is important-- correcting the Churchill/Patton mythology that we could have defeated the massive Red Army in 1945-- the guys who destroyed 80% of the Nazi Wehrmacht, while rolling it back 1,000 miles from Stalingrad to Berlin.

Check out the map of troop deployments. (My dad's battalion was part of U.S. #7 in 1945.)

13. Winston Churchill Wanted to Attack the Soviets Soon as WWII Ended

As WWII drew to a close, Winston Churchill grew exasperated by Stalin’s intentions to subjugate Eastern Europe. Britain had joined the war to defend Polish independence, but here was Stalin, riding roughshod over the Poles, reducing them to Soviet clients, and extinguishing their freedom and independence. Churchill saw it as a matter touching British honor, so he ordered his generals to draw up plans for an attack on the Soviets soon as Germany surrendered, with the nebulous aim of pushing them back to the USSR’s borders, or at least forcing them to treat Poland fairly.

The generals presented him with Operation Unthinkable, whose title indicates what they thought of the idea. An offensive version envisaged a surprise attack on the soviets in July, 1945, intended to force Stalin to give Poland a “fair deal”. A defensive version envisaged a British defense of Western Europe after America withdrew from the continent. In either scenario, Churchill was told, it would probably end with the Red Army conquering all of continental Europe, instead of getting chased back to the USSR. The prime minister grudgingly let the matter drop, and Operation Unthinkable was archived.

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