Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s top secret plan to invade Russia
Britain s current relationship with Russia is said to be icy – but that s nothing compared to the blueprint for war drawn up 76 years ago
23 May 2021 • 6:00am
Just days after the Red Army captured Berlin, Churchill ordered his joint planning staff at the war office to draw up plans for a massive offensive against the Soviet Union
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“Close to frozen” is how Andrey Kelin, Russia’s ambassador to the UK, recently described relations between London and Moscow. His frankness raised a few diplomatic eyebrows, but the comment should come as no surprise. Ever since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, hostility between the two nations has been the norm – not the exception.