Winston Churchill, reputed person with innovative thinking, spring 1945 years gave his military analysts the task, what they could not even expect from such an original as the British Prime Minister. He instructed them to develop a plan of attack on the USSR.
This is written by an American expert on defense and history, Michael Peck in an article, published by National Interest (NI).
The idea to start another after such a large-scale war was so crazy, that the British military called the plan of the attack on the USSR "The Unthinkable".
Then it was supposed, that after the victory over Hitler most of the American troops will be transferred to the Pacific Ocean against Japan. And then, according to Churchill, if Stalin decides not to confine himself to Eastern Europe and moves his troops further, there will be no one to stop him.
Therefore, the British prime minister decided to attack first and arrange on the line, dividing Germany and Poland, tank battle like the battle of Kursk. Not only Anglo-American troops were to take part in the offensive, but also German divisions, which the British planned to form from captured Wehrmacht soldiers, arming them with british and trophy weapons.
Going to start in July 1945 of the year, so that it ends before the cold. anticipated, that British troops will stop on the Danzig-Breslau line (Gdansk - Wroclaw), to avoid a strike from the rear of the Soviet units, located in Czechoslovakia. Then the allies were to demand the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe.
The plan was, as the American observer writes, interesting, but there was one very weak spot in it, which didn’t just complicate the task, but made its implementation impossible. The thing is, what the British never managed to come up with, how to make Russians give up, if they suddenly do not want to lay down their arms. After all, then I would have to step on, thousands of kilometers deep into a vast country. And Napoleon already tried to do this., and Hitler. And nothing good for them, this venture did not end…
Generally, made up the British military a good plan, showed Churchill and hid away.
