Operation Unthinkable – 1945 plan to attack the Soviet Union Interactive case file on Operation Unthinkable, Britain’s May 1945 plan to attack the Soviet Union: map, people, timeline, the Moscow leak, podcast. EN/CS. Plain-text version: llms-full.txt .
The file : Two weeks after VE Day Churchill asked for a plan to attack the Red Army. The memo CAB 120/691, what it said, and what it did not.The plan : Where Operation Unthinkable would have struck (Dresden), 47 Western divisions against the Red Army, force ratios and why planners called it hazardous.People : Personnel cards: Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin, Brooke, Montgomery, Dönitz, Attlee and others, with what the sources say about each.Flensburg : Why a German government still sat under British guard for 23 days after Hitler’s death, and how it ended with the arrests of 23 May 1945.The leak : How the plan may have reached Stalin: Guy Burgess, Maclean, Philby and the evidence for and against each suspect.Timeline : Eighteen dated events from Yalta in February 1945 to the plan becoming public, each marked verified, disputed or podcast-only.Iron Curtain : Where the phrase came from: gaslit theatres, Churchill’s May 1945 telegram to Truman and the Fulton speech of 5 March 1946.Atomic bomb : The report of 22 May, the Trinity test on 16 July, and why two bombs did not settle a war with the Red Army. With an interactive test.Today : Parallels and limits when comparing the 1945 plan with Russia’s war against Ukraine, with sources and clearly marked opinion.Shop : A satirical, fictional shop: nothing is for sale. Five “products” from the one British operation of 1945 that is safely in stock.Podcast series : AI-generated podcast series made in NotebookLM from open sources: an overview, eleven episodes and a bonus, with an episode guide.
