One of the special events of the Second World War is the Berlin operation with the storming of the Nazi capital, carried out by the Red Army in April-May 1945. Marshal Zhukov is accused of not sparing the soldiers for the "unnecessary" hoisting of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. They cite the terrible price of this victory: "The losses of the Russians amounted to 500,000 people." But it's not. This operation cost almost one hundred and twenty thousand lives of Soviet soldiers and officers, which, of course, is also a lot. Were these losses justified? After all, Berlin could be surrounded and wait until they themselves die out there ... So we think, who did not survive THAT war. And the opponents of Russia skillfully speculate on this, offering their own explanation of those events: "an unnecessary propaganda step", "the disregard for human life characteristic of Russians" and similar nonsense.
But in 1998, the British documents of the end of the war were declassified - and the determination of the leadership of the USSR to take Berlin and enter the line of demarcation of the Allied forces, established at the meeting of the Big Three (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill) in Yalta, became clear. The assault on the capital of the Third Reich was vital to the fact that after the bloodiest war in history, peace really came. Because not everyone needed it. But first, about whose plan was revealed, having lain in the archive for half a century.

"Frantic Winston"

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was an outstanding personality. In addition to such important qualities for the leader of a world power as decisiveness, perseverance, foresight, he perfectly embodied all the traits of a politician - hypocrisy, intrigue, refusal of any promises as soon as they become unprofitable. In letters, he assured Stalin that he “prays that the Anglo-Soviet alliance will become a source of many benefits for both countries, the United Nations and the whole world.” that the "noble enterprise" will succeed completely. What is an "enterprise"? The Russian offensive on the front from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathians, hastily launched to the detriment of themselves, if only to save the Allies from disaster. The “frantic Winston” considered himself free from any obligations to the USSR, inciting President Roosevelt to confront Moscow. He did not go for it, and Churchill began to act independently. It was clear to him who the main enemy was. And they were not fascists at all.

There was no second front since the end of February 45th. Listlessly resisting in the west, the Germans withdrew to the east in order to detain the Russians there as much as possible. Having strained, they, of course, will break through the front, but they will break into the battle formations of the Anglo-Saxons who came to the rescue, as if taking over from the Wehrmacht in repelling the Soviet threat to the “free world”. There was a great opportunity for this idea to come true. Allies at an accelerated pace walked forward. Business Yankees simultaneously swept clean and exported the valuable technological heritage of the Third Reich overseas. And the British, in their own mind, collected and carefully stored captured German weapons. Churchill gave the order to Marshal Montgomery not to disband the German units that had surrendered without resistance, but to place them divisionally in camps in northern Germany and southern Denmark. Having assigned to them English commanders, they were engaged in ... combat training!
In early April, the British Prime Minister ordered the development of a plan to attack the Russians, a plan to move from World War II to World War III, all with the same goal of destroying the hated USSR. The staff officers already had some developments, and on May 22, a 29-page plan for Operation Unthinkable lay on Churchill's desk.

Plan: really unthinkable!

The cap of the declassified paper leaves no doubt about its ownership: “This document is the property of the government of His Majesty the King of Great Britain. Top secret. Final version, May 22, 1945. Military office. Joint Planning Headquarters. Operation Unthinkable.
It was a plan for a new war. The start date was set: July 1, 1945. Its goal was named: "To impose on the Russians the will of the United States and the British Empire." But what if the military success of the West does not induce the Russians to submit to its will? The plan contains the answer: "If they want total war, they will have it."
Preparing a new massacre, not yet finished the old one, the planners came to the conclusion: “The Russians can be taken out of the game only as a result of:
a) the occupation of such a vast territory of Russia itself that it will reduce its military potential to a level at which further resistance is impossible;
b) inflicting such a defeat on the Russian troops that would make it impossible for the Soviet Union to continue the war.
In accordance with Churchill's instructions, the plan proceeded from the following:
a) its full support by public opinion in Britain and the United States;
b) full support for the Polish troops, the use of German labor and German industry;
c) the lack of assistance from the armies of other Western powers.
An assessment of the situation was given, goals were formulated, the forces involved, the directions of attacks by Western troops, and their probable results were determined. Applications contain data on the deployment of troops, maps.
The "ally" was not embarrassed that the knife would be thrust into the back of someone who was already bleeding. The USSR lost over 20 million people. The Germans left behind scorched earth, blew up all the bridges and 80,000 km of rail track (this is more than all the railways of the Reich), breaking even the sleepers. More than 4/5 of production facilities were destroyed, more than 1/3 of the population lost their homes. The entire national wealth of Germany would not be enough to compensate for losses and damage.
That was the calculation. It was believed that Soviet troops exhausted after fighting in Europe; equipment is worn out to the limit; there are no strategic stocks of food and medicines. And therefore, you can throw the Russians to the pre-war borders. But what if they manage to withdraw the troops and avoid defeat? “In this case, they can adopt the tactics that they have successfully used against the Germans, as well as in previous wars, the use of the vast distances with which nature has endowed them. In 1942, the Germans reached Moscow, the Volga and the Caucasus, but the evacuation of factories, combined with the deployment of new resources and the help of the allies, allowed the USSR to continue the fighting.
The authors of the plan were optimistic: “First of all, we will have superiority over the Russians in the air and at sea. The latter will allow us to control the Baltic." For this, 2-3 cruisers, 2 destroyer flotillas, a submarine flotilla, several flotillas of motorized batteries / armored boats, 1 assault formation were allocated. All this was transferred from England and placed at the naval bases of Germany and Sweden (the main naval base of Karlskrona and Lyde Fjord). To destroy any ships leaving the northern ports of Russia or from the Black to the Mediterranean Sea, small-tonnage warships (torpedo boats, minelayers, etc.) were provided. The navies of Great Britain and the United States at that time had absolute superiority over the Soviet Navy: 19 times in destroyers, 9 times in battleships and large cruisers, and 2 times in submarines. They had 167 aircraft carriers and 7,700 carrier-based aircraft. The USSR did not have them at all.
The basis of the "allies" hope for victory was their superiority in strategic aviation - 2464 first-class bombers (the Russians have up to 1000 long-range bombers with a smaller combat radius). True, Russia is much further than Germany: “In the air, our advantage will be complicated by the fact that strategic bombers will initially have to be based in England, even if intermediate airfields on the continent are used. The exhausting workload of the Air Force and the long distances that they will have to overcome will hardly allow them to be used with the same efficiency as during the war with Germany. In addition: “Russian industry is so dispersed that it can hardly be considered a convenient target for air strikes. At the same time, the great length of Russian communications provides much more preferable targets for bombing, especially at important crossings through water barriers. However, to achieve effective results, such attacks on communications must be coordinated with an offensive on land in order to complicate the supply of Russian units. Whatever one may say, it will be necessary to transfer air bases to the continent (Germany, Scandinavia). True, with a complex system of ground support for strategic aviation, this takes a lot of time, which deprived of surprise. And one more thing: the Russians had twice as many tactical aircraft, which could greatly complicate the life of the ground forces of the Western coalition. Lamenting: “We will have to use heavy bombers for tactical purposes in order to provide direct support to the ground forces. Bomber aircraft in the Mediterranean will be used in the same capacity, "the authors of the plan concluded:" The only remedy to achieve rapid military success is the land campaign". In accordance with the topography of Central Europe, the main blow was supposed to be delivered in the north (the territory of the former GDR and present-day Poland). South of the Zwickau-Chemnitz-Dresden-Görlitz line, mountainous terrain begins, making it difficult to conduct a maneuver war. In the territory of the Reich occupied by the Allies, the communications system was almost completely destroyed, and in the “Russian” part of Germany, the railways functioned almost normally. I had to take this into account, because how to transfer our troops if the operation drags on?!

"Cannon fodder"

The British saw the main threat in the Red Army. Not without some apprehension, they predict: “It is impossible to talk about the limit of the allies' advance into the depths of Russia, at which further Russian resistance will become impossible. It is difficult to imagine the very possibility of such a deep and rapid penetration as the Germans did in 1942, despite the fact that such an advance did not lead to a decisive outcome. And although the collapse of the Barbarossa plan was very obvious, the British, when developing Operation Unthinkable, were sincerely convinced that now the Red Army was on its last legs.
The “unplanned” swift Russian strikes and the capture of Vienna, Berlin and Prague by Churchill’s staff officers briefly alerted: “The current balance of forces in Central Europe, where the Russians have a 3: 1 advantage, makes a complete and decisive Allied victory in this territory unlikely in the current situation . Although the Allies are doing better in organization and slightly better in providing troops, the Russians in the war with the Germans showed themselves to be a worthy adversary. They have competent command, adequate equipment and a military organization that may not meet our standards, but has stood the test of war. On the other hand, only about 1/3 of their divisions correspond to their level, others are far behind, and in terms of mobility, all of them, without exception, are significantly inferior to the formations of the allies. Like this: they rejected 2/3 of the Russian divisions! Although it is their troops, "corresponding high level requirements”, the Germans beat as they wanted, with their understaffed divisions.
The total Allied force in Northern Europe on 1 July was to be 50 infantry, 20 armored, 5 airborne divisions plus armored and infantry brigades, equivalent to 8 divisions. But it was impossible to send all of them to attack the Russians, leaving occupied Germany in the rear. It was necessary to ensure its control, the protection of allied lines of communication, and the prevention of sabotage by the Germans. So, according to the developers of the plan, only 47 divisions could be involved in the strike, incl. 14 armored. The Russians, on the other hand, could put up forces equivalent to 170 Allied divisions, incl. 30 armored, which gave them a 2:1 advantage in tanks and 4:1 in infantry. The third world war was supposed to start on July 1 with a surprise attack on Russian positions. But 47 divisions are few, very few. And because the British staffers seriously preoccupied themselves with the question - where to get manpower? It could be collected in only two ways:
a) attract more American soldiers to Europe. But this will not succeed, the Yankees are at war with the Japanese;
b) squeeze out human resources from the Western European allies.
It was supposed to throw into battle as "cannon fodder" the Polish expeditionary force. And if you put the French in control of beaten Germany, then even more British and US forces will be released for the shock fist. They did not intend to involve the French in hostilities. Their chronic attraction to the Russians (World War I, World War II) ruined their reputation. So they were only trusted to cover the rear, while the Anglo-Saxons would “wet” the Russians and push them back beyond the Urals.

It seems that the French would only be happy with such a course of affairs. The pro-Russian Yugoslavia was also a headache for the allies, capable, in the event of an attack on the USSR, to let them bleed in Austria. To defend this piece of the "free world", 20 infantry and 5 armored divisions were needed. Helping to implement the plan was the “Polish factor”: “The Russians will probably have to deal with significant internal security problems in Poland. The vast majority of Poles are most likely anti-Russian.”

"Assistance from the Germans"

So in the plan, the use of "cannon fodder" is veiledly named, which is absolutely not to be regretted - a soldier of the defeated Wehrmacht. Their military value is given great attention. At first, they "may welcome an alliance with the Western allies in the name of a crusade against Bolshevism, and their will to conduct military operations will remain at least in the units that fought on the Eastern Front." Now it is clear why 100,000 fighters of the defeated Wehrmacht were gathered, why they were trained: to support the strike of a half-million Anglo-American group. But who will lead them into battle? "If Germany is required to fight on the side of the Western Allies, the German General Staff must be seriously reformed in order to be able to control the army." The calculation was on the German generals and officers, who will decide that it is better for them to take the side of the Western Allies. True, their desire to “restore their military prestige may be limited by the following factors:
a) the attitude of veterans (especially those who were in captivity for a long time) that the war is over, even if Germany lost it;
c) hidden anger at the allies for the defeat;
d) the inevitable confusion of changing sides in the conflict;
e) the difficult conditions of fighting on the Eastern Front, which the Germans were very well aware of;
d) war weariness;
e) Russian propaganda;
f) gloating at the sight of the West getting into trouble with Russia.”
Summary: German generals, if they want to take the side of the Anglo-Saxons, at first will not be able to lead more than 10 divisions into battle. And even gathering these forces will take a considerable amount of time. The “Russian barbarians” brought the strongest army in Europe (the Germans!) to such a state that it is unable to field more than 10 divisions, and even then not earlier than autumn, and certainly not on July 1, 1945.

Prelude to a stab in the back

On February 11, the meeting of the Big Three in Yalta ended. It was agreed that the air forces of the three powers in their actions would adhere to strict lines of demarcation. On February 12, the guests flew home. On February 13-14, 1088 British and American bombers wiped out Dresden, which was part of the Russian occupation zone. One of the main objectives were bridges over the Elbe, a formidable natural obstacle along the south-north line. Crossing the Elbe without bridges, the Red Army would have choked with blood.

Churchill's instructions were carried out: "Detain the Russians as far to the east as possible." On March 15, 612 American "flying fortresses" smashed the city of Oranienburg in the Soviet zone of occupation (there was a uranium production plant). On April 14, the entire historic Potsdam was bombed. Then - the entire industry of Slovakia in the future Soviet zone of occupation. And so on... Knowing today about the "Unthinkable", you understand these manifestations of hostility on the part of the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, which at the end of the war, it would seem, should be at the peak of honesty and cordiality. And then they looked at it with bewilderment. There was another motive in the actions of the “friends”: “to show the Russians ... what the Royal Air Force is capable of” (from the Memorandum read to the British pilots before flying to Dresden). And they showed.
Allied commanders Eisenhower and Montgomery refused to participate in the joint Victory Parade in Berlin, which they were supposed to take with Marshal Zhukov.

"The last fight, he is the most difficult"

Maybe it would be necessary to tell the allies that their plans were revealed? Notify the world community about their treachery? It wouldn't do anything! The USSR constantly tried to influence them by example. So, smashing the Germans, the Russians went beyond the demarcation lines provided for in Yalta in Austria, and a telegram to the allies immediately left Stalin: “The Soviet troops, pursuing parts of the Wehrmacht, were forced to cross the line previously agreed between us. I want to hereby confirm that at the end of hostilities, the Soviet side will withdraw its troops within the established zones of occupation. Churchill was not impressed. And Moscow gave its answer to the intimidation of the potential of Western bomber aircraft: “You have shown that you can in the air. Now look what we can do on earth."
... And the Wehrmacht was preparing its "Stalingrad" for the Russians in Berlin. As if spellbound, the Germans repeated thousands of times, wrote in newspapers, leaflets, on the walls, chanted aloud: "Berlin will remain German!" The defense of the city was carefully thought out, its basis was a system of fire, strongholds and centers of resistance. 300,000 soldiers, 3,000 guns, and 250 tanks were concentrated on an area of ​​300 km2. From the east, the city was covered by the Seelow Heights - 7 lines of defense. By all accounts irresistible. In the city itself, 9 defense sectors, hundreds of reinforced concrete structures, multi-storey bunkers, pillboxes with guns and machine guns were created. Powerful barricades blocked the streets, and dug-in tanks in the role of armored pillboxes blocked the intersections. The defense was significantly strengthened by underground structures, incl. metro, as well as a dense network of rivers, streams and canals. The main type of houses in Berlin are massive stone buildings with thick walls: their windows and doors have become loopholes. The closer to the city center, the tighter the defense became. The Germans had a huge number of faustpatrons, formidable weapons of street fighting ...
Nevertheless, Stalin insisted on an assault. It was Marshal Zhukov who became its executor. And Berlin was taken. Although for this it was necessary to literally bite into every meter, to break through with fire and steel the way to the heart of the enemy capital, to the very Reichstag, to its very dome. Where the Banner of Victory was hoisted. And least of all it was propaganda. It was a matter of principle. Where the monster crawled out came and put an end to the most terrible war, those who, firstly, suffered most from the "supermen" and, secondly, made a much greater contribution to victory than the allies, who even in this war fabulously rich.

So was it necessary to make such sacrifices at the end of the war? Was there a choice? Otherwise, Berlin would have been surrendered to the “allies” without a fight, and the combined forces of the West would have attacked the USSR. And there would have been thousands of times more victims. The storming of Berlin gave battle to a new war, which was already at the threshold. For this they fell soviet soldiers, "even though everyone still hoped to live ...". But they did not fall in vain.
And then, on June 29, 1945, the day before the start of a new war, the Red Army suddenly changed the deployment of its units. The Allies got the hint. And just in time they jumped aside from the dangerous Russian ice rink.

And "Big Brother" did not help Winston

The Americans also let Churchill down badly. They transferred troops to the Pacific theater of operations and, fighting with the Japanese, along the way took over the possessions of Britain, squeezing out the “queen of the seas” from Asia. On the day of Roosevelt's death (04/12/1945), US embassies, state and military institutions received Truman's command: all documents signed by Roosevelt are not subject to execution. Next command: harden your stance towards the Russians. But, as much as he wanted, Truman did not support Churchill's idea. Firstly, the population of the United States then very sympathized with the Russians and would not have accepted the betrayal of an ally. Secondly, their generals literally rebelled against Truman (excluding Patton). In the event of a break with the USSR, they would have to fight Japan themselves, for which, according to the Pentagon, from one to two million American guys would have paid with their lives. And one more thing: they knew that it was easier to unleash a war with the USSR than to get out of it later. After all, they did not yet have an atomic bomb. So the "friendship" with the Russians continued until the surrender of Japan. The storming of Berlin was a warning to Churchill and his accomplices, and sobered the heads of the West, drugged by the easy successes of the spring of 1945.

The plan for Operation Unthinkable was submitted to the Chiefs of Staff Committee - supreme body leadership of the British armed forces. Their figures were somewhat different from the calculations of the Unthinkable plan, but nevertheless, on June 8, they sent their conclusion to Churchill: “We believe that if war breaks out, it will be beyond our ability to achieve quick limited success, and we will find ourselves drawn into a long war against superior forces. forces. Moreover, the superiority of these forces may increase exorbitantly if American fatigue and indifference increase and they are drawn to their side by the magnet of the war in the Pacific. The document was signed by Chief of the General Staff Field Marshal Brook and the Chiefs of Staff of the Navy and Air Force. The storming of Berlin fulfilled its political, psychological and military purpose.
In mid-July 1945, Churchill lost the election and resigned, the plan for Operation Unthinkable was sent to the archive. But here you need to make a reservation: "The Unthinkable" failed in Churchill's version. The new government of England also incited the Americans to conflict with the USSR, which is confirmed by declassified documents. In September 1945, General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery again came to the conclusion that if the Russians went on the offensive in Europe, they could not be stopped. Subsequent wars against the USSR were developed within the framework of other military coalitions.

Operation Unthinkable, developed at the direction of the British Prime Minister W. Churchill by the British Military Planning Headquarters in the deepest secret even from other headquarters, provided for a military campaign against the USSR immediately after the end of World War II. The plans of the operation included the defeat of Soviet troops on the territory of the former Nazi Reich and a new invasion of the Soviet Union, as well as the total destruction of Soviet cities from the air using nuclear weapons. Forces destined for a German-style blitzkrieg would include both Anglo-American troops and German, Polish and Hungarian divisions.

The events and facts presented in this article may seem incredible. In fact, it is difficult to believe in them, how difficult it is for a sane person to believe in the possibility of a vile betrayal of someone whom he considered an ally and friend. And yet, a treacherous betrayal was planned and in fact was committed. For almost seven decades, information about him was kept in the strictest confidence and only recently became public. And it happened unintentionally. It all started with the fact that the British journalist T. Mayer published his book When the Lions Roar: Churchill and the Kennedy clan. In particular, the book dealt with an FBI document declassified in the United States, in which British ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1947 asks US Senator Samuel Bridges to convince US President Harry Truman to drop an atomic bomb on Moscow, and at the same time subject four more nuclear bombs. ten largest industrial centers of the USSR.

In this "radical" way, Churchill hoped to stop the "communist conquest" of the West. Documents confirming these truly cannibalistic plans are stored in the National Archives of Great Britain.

First you need to remember how the situation developed on the fronts in the victorious spring of 1945.

By April 1945, the Red Army had liberated the territory of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and partially Czechoslovakia. Both Soviet and Anglo-American troops were rapidly advancing through the territory of the agonizing Nazi Reich. At the same time, there was an unspoken competition: who would quickly approach Berlin and take it. The Soviet troops had an undeniable advantage in this regard: on April 13 they occupied Vienna, the capital of Austria, and on April 16 they began the operation to capture Berlin. On April 25, there was a historic meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe near the city of Torgau.

In the Pacific, Japanese troops were driven out of almost all the territories they captured, and the Japanese navy was defeated. However, the ground forces of Japan still represented a powerful force, the struggle against which in China and on the Japanese islands themselves could, according to the calculations of the American command, drag on until 1947 and require heavy sacrifices. This made the United States vitally interested in the help of the Soviet Union, which at the Yalta Conference of 1945 pledged to oppose Japan after the victory over Germany.

The secret development of a plan for a war against the USSR - in fact, unleashing the Third World War - began in early April 1945, even before the signing of the Act of Surrender of Nazi Germany.

Sir Winston personally came up with a code word for its designation - Unthinkable, which means "Unthinkable" in Russian. What did Churchill mean by this title? That we are talking only about the hypothetical possibility of a military clash with the Soviets in the event of an extreme aggravation of the situation? Or maybe (which is most likely) he simply understood that the allies were committing an unthinkable meanness against the Soviet Union, which bore the brunt of the fight against the fascist beast and saved the world, including, of course, Western democracies, from the brown plague? In addition, being a sober realist, Sir Winston, perhaps, was aware that it was impossible to crush the USSR and its Armed Forces in 1945, that this was unthinkable and obviously doomed to failure, and therefore assigned such an exotic name to the plan to unleash the Third World War, in fundamentally contrary to the spirit and fighting traditions of the British army, accustomed to fighting only with the enemy over which it was possible to defeat. Of course, after the prime minister's order, top secret work began in London on the concept and details of a surprise superpowered strike against Soviet troops in Berlin and East Germany.

But the Soviet leadership learned about the planning of Operation Unthinkable, its far-reaching goals, the forces involved, the immediate, subsequent and final tasks already a few days after the start of this work.

As is clear from the recently declassified documents of the Main Intelligence Directorate, already on May 18, 1945, the military attaché in London, Major General I.A. Sklyarov sent a telegram to Moscow, to the Center (GRU of the General Staff of the Red Army), on which, in addition to the signature stamp “Top Secret”, there was another signature stamp - “Super Lightning”. This designation, not accepted in the everyday practice of the attaches, indicated that the extraordinary telegram from London should have been deciphered in the first place and immediately reported to the top leadership of the country, namely I.V. Stalin and his closest associates in the State Defense Committee and the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command.

The military attache in England, Major General Sklyarov, reported to the Center absolutely reliable information received by his subordinate Lieutenant Colonel I.M. Kozlov from a secret agent encrypted with the letter "X". According to the agent, on May 15, 1945, the Joint Planning Headquarters of the British War Cabinet began to develop a plan for a war against the USSR - the Unthinkable plan.

"X" (his real name is still strictly classified, and the GRU may never reveal it at all!) informed Moscow that the development of the "Unthinkable" plan was being carried out under the cloak of the strictest secrecy, and several high-ranking military planners were involved in it. , including Generals Peak and Thompson, Deputy. the head of the planning department, Colonel Barry, Colonel Tanji and some other authoritative employees.

Agent "X" was constantly in touch with Lieutenant Colonel Kozlov, an employee of the USSR military attache, and during the war he transmitted to Moscow a large amount of the most important information.

This information revealed the plans of both the command of the Wehrmacht and the bosses of Nazi Germany, and the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition. Thus, "X" reported on secret negotiations conducted in Switzerland by the representative of the US Office of Strategic Services (military and political intelligence) Allen Dulles with the SS General Karl Wolf. On May 18, 1945, "X" informed the Center that on May 15, in the strictest secrecy, the first meeting on the development of Operation Unthinkable was held. The meeting was chaired by General Thompson, who was in charge of developing the plan. He began his speech by warning the members of the working group that “all preparatory measures must be carried out in conditions of extreme secrecy” and that Winston Churchill wants “to teach a good lesson to Stalin, to impose an Anglo-American war on the Soviet Union, to deliver a sudden and terrible blow to the Soviets ".

The initial postulates for the developers of the plan "Unthinkable", according to agent "X", should have been Churchill's intention to "drive the Russians to the line east of the Curzon line and then make peace."

Agent "X" also reported that the Joint Chiefs of Staff immediately declared: "It is impossible to make a plan on the basis of such a limited operation, and he will have to make a plan for total war against the Soviet Union."

By special order of Churchill, the Anglo-American troops on the European continent were put on full alert and were to begin combat operations against Soviet military units on July 1, 1945.

Literally until today, few people knew how Stalin managed to thwart the plans of the insidious "allies", why we were forced to hastily take Berlin, against whom the British instructors trained undisbanded German divisions in April 45, who surrendered to them, why he was with inhuman cruelty Dresden was destroyed in February 1945 and whom exactly the Anglo-Saxons wanted to intimidate with this.

The legend of “honest allies - the USA and Great Britain” was welcomed in every possible way, both in the USSR and in perestroika times. And few documents were published then - this period was hidden for many reasons. True, in recent years, the British and Americans themselves began to partially open the archives of that period, because now there is no one to fear - the USSR is no more.

So, on July 1, 1945, 47 British and American divisions, without any declaration of war, were to deal a crushing blow to the naive Russians who did not expect such boundless meanness from the allies.

The blow was supposed to be supported by 10-12 German divisions, which the “allies” kept undisbanded in Schleswig-Holstein and southern Denmark, they were trained daily by British instructors: they were preparing for war against the USSR. In theory, the war of the united forces of the entire Western civilization against Russia was to begin - later other countries were to participate in the "crusade" against the "communist infection" - Poland, then Hungary ... The war was supposed to lead to complete defeat and unconditional surrender of the USSR. The ultimate goal was to end the war at approximately the same line where Hitler planned to end it according to the Barbarossa plan: Arkhangelsk - Stalingrad.

The Anglo-Saxons intended to break us with total bombing terror - the savage destruction of the largest Soviet cities: Moscow, Leningrad, Vladivostok, Murmansk, etc. Devastating blows were to be delivered by armadas of "flying fortresses" - the notorious American B-29 bombers. How many millions of Soviet people had to perish in the most cruel "fire tornadoes" that wiped out Hamburg and Dresden, destroyed Tokyo ... Now they were going to do this with us, loyal allies.

Subsequently, in his memoirs, Churchill described the situation in the spring of 1945 as follows: “The destruction of the military power of Germany entailed a radical change in relations between communist Russia and Western democracies. They lost their common enemy, the war against which was almost the only link that bound their alliance. From now on, Russian imperialism and communist doctrine did not see and did not set limits to their advancement and striving for final domination. From this, according to Churchill, specific practical conclusions for Western strategy and policy inexorably flowed.

Soviet Russia, only strengthened during the Second World War, has grown into a deadly threat to the entire "free" world; it was necessary to create a new front against its rapid advance.

This front in Europe was to extend as far east as possible; the main goal of the Anglo-American armies is Berlin; the capture of Czechoslovakia and the entry of American troops into Prague is of the utmost importance; Vienna, or rather all of Austria, must be ruled by the Western powers...

Subsequently, Agent "X" gave details of the operation plan. According to the information he obtained, Churchill based it on the following most important considerations: the Anglo-Saxons strike at the Soviet troops approximately on July 1, 1945, without warning, with maximum surprise; British and American military morale and public opinion are bound to be "100 per cent reliable"; the German army and the capabilities of the defeated Third Reich and its allies "will be used against the Soviets with maximum force" ...

According to the agent, the head of British military intelligence, General Sinclair, and his trusted employee, Lieutenant Colonel Stockdale, were involved in the development of the Unthinkable plan, according to the decision of General Thompson.

"X" also relayed that the "Unthinkable" plan, in general terms, "requires the execution of a surprise pincer move by two army groups. One group is moving from the north of Germany, the other from the Leipzig region as quickly as possible to the center of Poland. This will be accompanied by powerful air raids on the most important communication centers and key railway bridges on the main river barriers (Oder, Spree, Vistula). An additional offensive should begin in Austria along the Linz-Vienna line. Special forces on air tanks should be transferred to the Black Sea in order to bomb the Caucasian and Baku oil refineries and oil fields (this was planned by the British back in 1940, and the developers of Operation Unthinkable simply removed an old skeleton from the closet, waiting in the wings). Also considered, and very seriously, "the likelihood of an air and sea operation against St. Petersburg."

The land campaign plan called for two main attacks in northeastern Europe in the direction of Poland.

In general, according to Churchill's instructions, the total Allied forces involved in the operation were to be: 50 infantry, 20 armored, 5 airborne divisions, as well as troops of the Wehrmacht and Poland. By the opening of hostilities, the Allies planned to fully arm and reorganize at least 10 German divisions. In total, at least 83 divisions with a total number of much more than one million people were to take part in the implementation of the Unthinkable plan ...

The occupation of a vast Soviet territory was also planned, in order to reduce the material and human potential of the USSR to a level at which "further resistance of the Soviets would be impossible." Politically, the design of the entire operation was an example of Anglo-Saxon goal-setting: imposing the political will of the British Empire and the United States on the Russians.

The news from London turned out to be a complete and obviously discouraging surprise for our leadership.

To be convinced of this, it suffices to recall that in the first days of May 1945, Stalin and Churchill repeatedly exchanged personal, and sometimes secret, and very confidential messages. Churchill, as is clear from the published correspondence, sent eight lengthy letters to Stalin and received the same number in return. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the British Prime Minister discussed in detail the most serious problems of the post-war structure of Europe and made attempts to harmonize the positions of their governments. In particular, the question of Allied control over the situation in the Italian province of Giulia was discussed, as well as the preparations for a conference on Allied areas of responsibility in Europe and the activities of the European Consultative Commission. In addition, the leaders of the victorious powers coordinated the time and procedure for announcing the Victory Day.

Comparing the facts, one involuntarily marvels at the truly boundless hypocrisy with which Sir Winston conducted an “interested” dialogue with the Soviet leader, while at the same time hatching plans for his physical destruction.

In a message dated May 9, Churchill, on behalf of the entire British nation, expressed to Stalin "heartfelt greetings on the occasion of the brilliant victory" that the Red Army and the peoples of the USSR won, "driving the invaders from their land and defeating Nazi tyranny", and also stated his confidence that " the future of mankind depends on friendship and mutual understanding between the British and Russian peoples. Further, the British Prime Minister, as it has now become clear, with feigned good-heartedness, wrote: “Here, in our island homeland, today we think of you very often, and we send you wishes of happiness and well-being from the depths of our hearts. We want that after all the sacrifices and sufferings in that gloomy valley through which we passed together, now, bound by true friendship and mutual sympathy, we could go further under the shining sun of a victorious world. Churchill ended this message with very eloquent words: "I ask my wife to convey to you all these words of friendship and admiration."

Stalin, already aware of the plans of the allies, answered Churchill less emotionally, in a more constructive and businesslike manner, shifting the discussion from enthusiastic outbursts to specific problems of the post-war structure of Europe, in particular, the need to allocate Poland, which had suffered so much from German Nazism, with a significant share of land in German Silesia. But he conducted the conversation, we emphasize, in a no less friendly, affable tone.

In history, alas, there is no documentary evidence of how the Soviet leader reacted to the report of the military attaché from London that Winston Churchill, swearing eternal friendship to him, gave the order to develop a plan of attack on Soviet troops and the USSR. One can only assume that the document handed to him by the head of the GRU, Kuznetsov, caused Stalin a reaction of bewilderment and many questions ...

By the way, during this period, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief also carried on a lively correspondence with US President Harry Truman. From Moscow to Washington, 8 personal messages were sent to Truman and 5 were received from him.

It should be noted right away that Churchill's idea of ​​inflicting a surprise blow on the Soviet troops was met with great disapproval in the circles of the British ruling elite. First of all, this idea was criticized at a secret meeting of the British military cabinet. For example, the head of British military intelligence, General Sinclair, bluntly called it "sheer nonsense that cannot be taken seriously at all." Sinclair immediately emphasized that "the position of Germany itself, with its problem of communications, millions of refugees, the problem of food and the state of industry, makes it impossible to wage a great war through Germany and Poland."

Agent "X" brought to the attention of Moscow the final results of the first meeting on the "Unthinkable" plan. “I think,” he concluded, “that the most responsible of his advisers will now consider the idea of ​​war against Russia as an adventure, but there are many of his instigators who, like Thornton, say:“ Now or never ”.

The military attache in London Sklyarov concluded an urgent report to Moscow with the words: “In words, the source said that the final decision on this issue is still unknown.”

Another report from London was reported by GRU chief Kuznetsov to Stalin exactly, so that he had the opportunity to get acquainted with both objective information and the reasoning and assessments of agent X.

In the second or third decade of May - June 1945, more and more new reports continued to arrive from the GRU's London residency about the development of Operation Unthinkable.

Thus, on May 19, agent X reported: “The Allies actually betrayed the USSR by separate secret negotiations in Bern with the German commander in Italy and secured their advance in Yugoslavia with a political trick, forcing Tito to fight a hard fight.”

May 28 - Another message from "X": "There are no new facts about the plan. The rumors are not reassuring. Beware of provocations for obvious political reasons.” This was a very significant warning.

In fact, an informed agent recalled the provocation of SS thugs led by Otto Skorzeny in the German town of Gleiwitz on the border with Poland on August 31, 1939, when, staging an attack on German territory, an SS man read into a microphone a statement broadcast to the whole world that “ the time has come for the war of Poland against Germany. "X," one must think not without reason, suspected that Operation Unthinkable - an attack on Soviet troops in Germany - could begin with a similar provocation in West Berlin.

Fortunately, there were sober heads in the British War Planning Staff.

Despite the involvement of German, Polish, and Hungarian troops, they came to the conclusion that Operation Unthinkable, due to the clear superiority of Soviet forces, was obviously doomed to failure.

And no matter how many resources the Anglo-Americans use, they still will not achieve success - the grouping of Soviet troops in Germany and Poland was so strong.

On May 22, 1945, the Military Planning Headquarters completed its calculations on the intended operation-adventure and reported its findings to Churchill. In general, Sir Winston agreed with them, but ordered to immediately begin work on a new plan for the same operation Unthinkable, this time in a defensive version. And already on June 9, Churchill received a draft of a new plan from General Ismay for approval. The next day, the prime minister wrote to Ismay: “I studied the draft Unthinkable plan, developed on June 8, 1945, which reflects Russian superiority in ground forces as 2 to 1. If the Americans withdraw their troops to their zones and transfer the main forces to the territory USA and the Pacific Ocean, the Russians have enough strength to advance to the coast of the North Sea and the Atlantic. It is necessary to think over a clear plan for how we can defend our Island, taking into account that France and the Netherlands will not be able to resist Russian superiority.

Concluding his message to the general, Churchill made this conclusion, indicating that he had not yet completely lost his mind: “Keeping the code name for the operation Unthinkable, the command understands that this is only a preliminary sketch of what I hope is still a hypothetical probability ... ".

Nevertheless, on the same June 10, Churchill gave General Ismay new instructions and demanded that the operation plan be finalized, which was soon executed.

The new draft defensive plan stated that “the Russians would be able to attack the British Isles using the following forms of war: by blockade of all sea lanes; by intrusion; by means of an air strike by aviation forces; in the event of a missile attack on the British Isles or the use of other new weapons (that is, it was implied that the USSR could well acquire its own nuclear weapons).

As a result, General Ismay concluded: “Only in the case of the use of missiles and other new weapons that the Russians may have, will there be a serious threat to the security of our country. An invasion or serious attack on our sea communications can only be carried out after a long preparation, which will take several years.

Thank God, this was the end of the Unthinkable plan. It was hidden in the archive, where it was safely gathering dust for several decades, until researchers not engaged by the ruling elite got to it.

However, unanswered questions still remain.

For example, what dividends did Churchill expect to derive from the implementation of the Unthinkable plan?

First of all, it should be noted that the British Prime Minister hoped to draw the United States into the global war against the USSR, which by the summer of 1945 already possessed nuclear weapons. It becomes obvious that Sir Winston wanted to take advantage of the favorable moment and "saddle" H. Truman, who, after the death of F. Roosevelt, became the sovereign American president. But despite Masonic solidarity, in the course of a preliminary secret discussion with the Americans of his plans for a war against the USSR, Churchill was unable to convince Truman of the advisability of attacking Soviet troops in Germany in 1945. Since the United States was in the decisive phase of the war with Japan and counted on Soviet assistance, the notorious Atlantic solidarity could cost them too much. In any case, if Truman had supported Churchill then, it could have been about the lives of hundreds of thousands of Yankees, and the American voter would not have forgiven his president for this.

Further, American military intelligence could not help but notice that on June 29, 1945, literally one day before the planned start of the war, the opposing Red Army suddenly changed its deployment. Marshal G.K. Zhukov brought the troops of the Group of Occupation Forces in Germany to full combat readiness, and the vanguards of the military units even advanced to combat positions. Soviet soldiers, selflessly obeying the marshal (whom Stalin, of course, dedicated to Churchill's plans), were ready to repel any provocation of the volatile allies with great damage to the enemy. It seems that this was also a weighty circumstance that tipped the scales of history - the order to attack the Anglo-Saxon troops was never given. Prior to this, the capture of Berlin, which was considered impregnable, showed the power of the Red Army and the military experts of the former ally came to the conclusion that it was inevitable to cancel the attack on the Red Army units.

But this happened in conditions when the allied coalition had a global preponderance in forces and means. Doesn't this remind you of the modern picture of the confrontation between NATO forces and Russian military groups?

Suffice it to recall that the naval forces of Great Britain and the United States in 1945 had absolute superiority over the Soviet Navy: 19 times in destroyers, 9 times in battleships and large cruisers, and 2 times in submarines. Over 100 aircraft-carrying ships and several thousand carrier-based aircraft against complete zero from the USSR. Yesterday's allies had 4 air armies of heavy bombers that could deliver devastating blows. Soviet long-range bomber aviation was incomparably weaker ...

By the way, in April 1945, the allies represented our troops as exhausted and exhausted, and military equipment as worn out to the limit. Their military experts were greatly surprised by the power of the Soviet Army, which it demonstrated in the capture of Berlin, which was considered impregnable throughout the world. There is no doubt that the decision of I.V. Stalin about the storming of Berlin in early May 1945 prevented the Third World War. This is confirmed by declassified documents. From them it is clear that Berlin would have been handed over by the Wehrmacht to the "allies" without a fight, and the combined forces of all of Europe and North America would have fallen upon the USSR.

Stalin, of course, did not have the opportunity to prevent the Second World War, but he managed to prevent the Third. The situation was extremely serious, but the USSR won again without flinching.

Now loud politicians and corrupt hacks in the West are trying to present Churchill's plan as a "response" to the "Soviet threat", to Stalin's attempt to seize all of Europe.

Did the Soviet leadership have plans at that time to advance to the shores of the Atlantic and capture the British Isles? The only obvious answer to this question is in the negative. This is confirmed by the law adopted in the USSR on June 23, 1945 on the demobilization of the army and navy, their subsequent transfer to peacetime states. Demobilization began on July 5, 1945 and ended in 1948. The army and navy were reduced from 11 million to less than 3 million people, the State Defense Committee and the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command were disbanded. Number of military districts in 1945–1946 decreased from 33 to 21. Significantly reduced the number of troops in East Germany, Poland and Romania. In September 1945, Soviet troops were withdrawn from northern Norway, in November from Czechoslovakia, in April 1946 from the island of Bornholm (Denmark), in December 1947 - from Bulgaria ...

As the leading expert on foreign policy post-war period, doctor of historical sciences Valentin Falin, “it is difficult to find in the past century a politician equal to Churchill in his ability to confuse strangers and his own. But the future Sir Winston was especially successful in terms of hypocrisy and intrigues regarding the Soviet Union.
In messages addressed to Stalin, he "prayed that the Anglo-Soviet alliance would be a source of many blessings for both countries, for the United Nations and for the whole world," wished "full luck to the noble enterprise." This meant the broad offensive of the Red Army along the entire eastern front in January 1945, hastily preparing in response to the plea of ​​Washington and London to help the allies who were in a crisis situation in the Ardennes and Alsace. But it's in words. But in fact, Churchill considered himself free from any obligations to the Soviet Union ... ".

It was then that Churchill gave orders to stockpile captured German weapons with an eye to their possible use against the USSR, placing Wehrmacht soldiers and officers who surrendered into divisions in the land of Schleswig-Holstein and in southern Denmark. Then the general meaning of the insidious undertaking begun by the British leader will become clear. The British took German units under their protection, which surrendered without resistance, sent them to the indicated lands. In total, about 15 German divisions were stationed there. Weapons were stored, and personnel were trained for future fights ...

According to the will of Churchill, literally everything was clearly spelled out in the Unthinkable plan: the Soviet troops at that moment would be exhausted, the equipment that participated in the hostilities in Europe would be worn out, food supplies and medicines would come to an end. Therefore, it will not be difficult to push them back to the pre-war borders and force Stalin to resign. “We were waiting for a change in the state system and the split of the USSR. - writes V. Falin. - As a measure of intimidation - the bombing of cities, in particular, Moscow. She, according to the plans of the British, was waiting for the fate of Dresden, which, as you know, was razed to the ground by Allied aviation ... ".

The American General Patton, the commander of the tank armies, directly stated that he did not plan to stop at the demarcation line along the Elbe, agreed upon in Yalta, but to go further, to Poland, from there to Ukraine and Belarus - and so on to Stalingrad. And end the war where Hitler did not have time and could not finish it. “He called us nothing but “the heirs of Genghis Khan, who must be expelled from Europe,” notes V. Falin. “After the end of the war, Patton was appointed governor of Bavaria, and was soon removed from his post for Nazi sympathies ...”.

London denied the very existence of the Unthinkable plan for a long time, but a few years ago the British declassified part of their archives, and among the documents were papers relating to Operation Unthinkable. There was nowhere to dissociate further ...

Eisenhower admits in his memoirs that the Second Front already at the end of February 1945 practically did not exist: the Germans rolled back to the east without resistance.

The tactics of the Germans was as follows: to hold, as far as possible, positions along the entire line of the Soviet-German confrontation until the virtual Western and real Eastern fronts closed, and the American and British troops, as it were, would take over from the Wehrmacht formations in repelling the "Soviet threat ”, which allegedly inevitably hung over Central and Western Europe.

Churchill at this time, in correspondence, telephone conversations with Roosevelt, is trying to convince at all costs to stop the Russians, not to let them into Central Europe. This explains the significance that the capture of Berlin had acquired by that time.

It should be recalled that the Western allies could move east somewhat faster than they could if the headquarters of Montgomery, Eisenhower and Alexander (Italian theater of operations) planned their actions better, coordinated forces and means more competently, spent less time on internal squabbles and search common denominator. Washington, while Roosevelt was alive, for various reasons, was in no hurry to put an end to cooperation with Moscow, and Truman at first, at least until the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, was in no hurry to break or at least spoil relations with the USSR. And for Churchill, "the Soviet Moor had done his job and should have been removed."

Remember, Yalta ended on February 11. In the first half of February 12, the guests flew home. In the Crimea, by the way, it was agreed that the aviation of the three powers would adhere to certain lines of demarcation in their operations. And on the night of February 12-13, Western Allied bombers wiped Dresden off the face of the earth, then struck a terrible blow at the main enterprises in Slovakia, in the future Soviet zone of occupation of Germany, so that we would not get the factories intact. In 1941, Stalin offered the British and Americans to bomb the oilfields in Ploiesti using Crimean airfields. But then they did not touch them. They were raided in 1944, when Soviet troops came close to the main center of oil production, which had supplied Germany with fuel throughout the war.

One of the main targets of the raids on Dresden was the bridges over the Elbe. The Churchillian directive, which was shared by the Americans, was in effect - to detain the Red Army as far as possible in the East.

The briefing before the departure of the British crews said: you need to "visually demonstrate to the Soviets the capabilities of allied bomber aviation." Here they demonstrated. And, not just once. In April 1945 Potsdam was bombed. Destroyed Oranienburg. We were notified - it turns out that the American pilots simply “made a mistake”. They, de, were aiming at Zossen, where the headquarters of Marshal Goering and the German Air Force were located. The classic "distracting statement" that is innumerable. Oranienburg was bombed on the orders of Marshall and Lehi, because there were laboratories working with uranium materials. So that neither the laboratories, nor the personnel, nor the equipment, nor the nuclear materials themselves fall into our hands, everything was turned into ashes and dust.

It is clear that in the course of Operation Unthinkable, Churchill expected to expel Soviet troops from Germany and the Eastern European states, beyond the Curzon Line (which is now actually restored due to the admission of Poland and the Baltic states to NATO, the fascist coup in Ukraine). The British Prime Minister believed that the allied forces should occupy almost the entire European part of the Soviet Union. Thus, Sir Winston mentally saw himself as the liberator of Europe from both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks. By the way, Churchill claimed the role of the savior of European civilization, the entire “free world” from the “communist infection” back in 1918, acting as the organizer of the Anglo-French-American-Japanese intervention in the young Soviet republic.

And the last circumstance following from the previous ones. Churchill, in inciting fellow Freemason Truman to carry out a "preemptive" strike on the Soviets, meant air (and most likely nuclear) strikes against the most important objects in the territory of the USSR. In particular, he called for an air and sea operation against Leningrad and inflict as much damage as possible on the Caucasian oil fields and refineries. But at the same time, the British prime minister intended to destroy the spiritual power of Russia (what is the idea of ​​razing to the ground the treasury of Russian national culture - St. Petersburg - Leningrad!).

Fortunately, Churchill's attempts to drag the United States into the war against the USSR did not meet with approval in Washington at that time. Impatiently awaiting the results of the test of the created atomic bomb, which imparted unprecedented power to the American armed forces, US President G. Truman was not at all eager to dance to the tune of Churchill and act according to the plans developed in London, especially since the Soviet Armed Forces still had to crush the entrenched in the Asian Continent of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

In July 1945, Churchill, as if nothing had happened, headed the British delegation to the conference of the heads of the Allied Powers in Potsdam. However, after the victory of the Laborites in the parliamentary elections, the British delegation in Potsdam was already headed by the Laborist K. Attlee instead of Churchill ...

The plan for Operation Unthinkable was only declassified by the British government in 1999. But Soviet military intelligence found out its content in advance, as the most important provisions were developed, and timely informed the Soviet leadership.

The end of the Great Patriotic War, at the behest of the insidious British prime minister, could well turn into the first act of a new world war. Fortunately, this did not happen. The plan for Operation Unthinkable has been archived. Its implementation was thwarted, in fairness, by the military attache in London, Major General Sklyarov, his subordinate Lieutenant Colonel Kozlov, and most importantly, the archaic agent under the pseudonym "X".

The story of the development and cancellation of Operation Unthinkable, which became public as a result of the publication of a recording of a conversation between the former British Prime Minister and US Senator S. Bridges, which was kept in the special archive of the US FBI, is another confirmation that in the years " cold war»Peace on the planet was constantly exposed to dangerous threats from prudent political intriguers like Sir Winston Churchill.

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Third World War was to begin on July 1, 1945 with a sudden blow of the combined Anglo-Saxon forces against the Soviet troops. In early April 1945, British Prime Minister Churchill ordered the Chiefs of Staff to urgently prepare a plan code-named Operation Unthinkable. According to Churchill, the armed forces of England, the USA, France, Canada, the troops of the Polish government in exile - 2 corps and, most interestingly, Germany - 15 German divisions, assembled from prisoners of war, should have dealt a powerful blow to the Red Army in Central Europe. It was then that Churchill gave orders to stockpile captured German weapons with an eye to their possible use against the USSR, placing Wehrmacht soldiers and officers who surrendered in divisions in the land of Schleswig-Holstein and in southern Denmark. The weapons were stockpiled, and the personnel were trained for future fights.

According to the Unthinkable plan, the attack on the USSR was to begin, following the principles of Hitler, with a sudden blow. On July 1, 1945, 47 British and American divisions, without any declaration of war, were to strike a crushing blow at the naive Russians who did not expect such boundless meanness from the allies. In theory, the war of the united forces of Western civilization against Russia was to begin, and later other countries, for example, Poland, then Hungary, were to participate in this “crusade” ... The war was to lead to the complete defeat and surrender of the USSR. The ultimate goal was to end the war approximately in the same place where Hitler planned to end it according to the Barbarossa plan - at the turn of Arkhangelsk-Stalingrad.

The Anglo-Saxons were preparing to break us with terror - the savage destruction of large Soviet cities: Moscow, Leningrad, Vladivostok, Murmansk and other crushing blows from waves of "flying fortresses". Several million Soviet people were to die in fiery tornadoes worked out to the smallest detail, just as the inhabitants of Hamburg, Dresden and Tokyo were destroyed. They were preparing to do this with us, with the allies. A common thing: the most heinous betrayal, extreme meanness and savage cruelty - the calling card of Western civilization and, especially, the Anglo-Saxons, who exterminated as many people as no other people in human history exterminated.

Of course, the reality in the spring of 1945 did not favor the implementation of the "Unthinkable" plan. First, Japan was still very strong. Secondly, the Red Army occupied very advantageous positions in Europe. Thirdly, public opinion either overseas or in the British Isles would hardly have approved of such a turn of events. However, the developers of the plan did not care. So, General George Patton said that "... he and his troops will reach the Volga and Stalingrad ..." (probably in the footsteps of Paulus).

By mid-April 1945, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front (commander Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov) were 60-70 km from Berlin. On the morning of April 16, the main forces of the 1st Belorussian, 1st Ukrainian, and then the 2nd Belorussian fronts began an operation to capture Berlin. In April 1945, Vienna, Berlin, and then Prague were out of reach of the troops of the Western Allies. The troops of the Western Allies crossed the Rhine in April and completed the liquidation of the enemy's Ruhr grouping. They occupied Magdeburg and a number of other major German cities. On April 25, a historic meeting of American and Soviet troops took place on the Elbe, near the city of Torgau.

Nazi Germany was in complete political isolation. Its only ally, Japan, against which, according to the decision confirmed at the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union was to act, was no longer able to exert any influence on the course of events in Europe. Through the efforts of the US Navy, Japanese troops were driven out of almost all the territories of the Pacific Ocean it had captured, and the Japanese navy was defeated.

However, the ground forces of Japan still represented a powerful force, the fight against which in China and on the Japanese islands themselves could, according to the calculations of the American command, drag on until 1947 and require heavy sacrifices. The USSR, ensuring the fulfillment of allied obligations and its own geopolitical interests, launched from the beginning of 1945 material preparations for military operations against the Japanese armies. In April, from the Soviet-German front to Far East the first command and staff departments of military formations departed, which, after the defeat of Germany, were to enter the war with Japan. The establishment of the USSR its control over the countries of Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, in particular the establishment of a pro-Soviet government in Poland as opposed to the government in exile in London, led to the fact that the ruling circles of Great Britain and the United States began to perceive the USSR as a threat. However, this did not stop Churchill when he ordered the preparation of a war plan against the USSR.

The tasks were formulated as follows:

first, Soviet Russia became a deadly threat to the free world;
secondly, to immediately create a new front against its rapid advance;
thirdly, this front in Europe should go as far as possible to the east;
fourthly, the main and true goal of the Anglo-American armies is Berlin;
fifthly, the liberation of Czechoslovakia and the entry of American troops into Prague is of the utmost importance;
sixthly, Vienna, essentially the whole of Austria, should be ruled by the Western powers, at least on an equal footing with the Russian Soviets;
seventhly, it is necessary to curb the aggressive claims of Marshal Tito towards Italy ...

The plan of operation was prepared by the Joint Planning Staff of the War Cabinet. The plan gives an assessment of the situation, formulates the goals of the operation, defines the forces involved, the directions of attacks by the troops of the Western allies and their probable results. The appendices to the plan contain information about the deployment of the Red Army troops (in English documents, as a rule, the term "Russian army" is used) and the Western allies, as well as cartographic material.

The general political goal of the planned operation was "to impose on the Russians the will of the United States and the British Empire." At the same time, it was noted that “although the “will” of the two countries can be considered as a matter directly related only to Poland, it does not at all follow that the degree of our involvement (in the conflict) will necessarily be limited. A quick (military) success may or may not induce the Russians to submit to our will at least temporarily. If they want total war, they will get it."

The military campaign was originally supposed to be land-based and unfold in North-Eastern Europe, the best zone for the offensive was considered the territory north of the Zwickau-Chemnitz-Dresden-Görlitz line. At the same time, it was assumed that the rest of the front would hold the defense. July 1, 1945 was considered as the start date of the operation in the plan.

In mid-July 1945, Churchill, having suffered a defeat in the elections, resigned. A Labor government led by Clement Attlee came to power in Britain. However, the new government continued to develop plans for a war with the USSR, involving the United States and Canada for this. The negotiations were entrusted to the head of the British military mission in Washington, a participant in the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, Field Marshal H. Wilson, who discussed British military projects with President G. Truman, General D. Eisenhower, at that time the commander-in-chief of allied forces in Europe and Canadian Prime Minister M. King. In September, General D. Eisenhower met on a yacht off the coast of the United States with British Field Marshal B. Montgomery. The parties ultimately came to the conclusion that if the Red Army launched an offensive in Europe, the Western Allies would not be able to stop it. The plan for Operation Unthinkable, or rather what was left of it, was sent to the archive, subsequent plans for the war against the USSR were already developed at the NATO level. The Soviet military plans of that time reflected the existing realities. Thus, the country's defense plan for 1947 set the task of ensuring the integrity of the borders in the West and East, established by international treaties after the Second World War, and being ready to repel possible enemy aggression. In connection with the creation of NATO, since 1949, a gradual increase in the number of Soviet armed forces: the country was drawn into an arms race. Operation Unthinkable

The victorious volleys of guns died down. The bloody war ended with the defeat of fascism. A trial was coming for those who unleashed this massacre, which claimed millions of human lives and set back the development of mankind many years ago. However, not everyone dreamed of eternal peace and life without shots...

For a long time this information was kept secret and only now it is becoming available. Few people know this now, as well as how Stalin managed to thwart the plans of "probable allies", why we were forced to hastily take Berlin, against whom the British instructors trained undisbanded German divisions in April 45, who surrendered to them, why Dresden was destroyed with inhuman cruelty in February 1945, and whom exactly the Anglo-Saxons wanted to intimidate with this. This period was hidden for many reasons. In recent years, the British began to partially open the archives of that period, there is no one to fear - the USSR no longer exists.

In April 1945, Churchill ordered the preparation of a plan for a war against the USSR. It was given to him on May 22, 1945 on 29 pages. The assignment was preceded by conclusions that Churchill presented in his memoirs:

• firstly, Soviet Russia became a deadly threat to the "free world";
• secondly, to immediately create a new front against its rapid advance;
• thirdly, this front in Europe should go as far as possible to the east;
• fourthly, the main and true goal of the Anglo-American armies is Berlin;
• fifthly, the liberation of Czechoslovakia and the entry of American troops into Prague is of the utmost importance;
• sixthly, Vienna, essentially the whole of Austria, should be ruled by the Western powers, at least on an equal footing with the Russian Soviets;
• seventhly, it is necessary to curb the aggressive claims of Marshal Tito towards Italy ...

The plan gives an assessment of the situation, formulates the goals of the operation, defines the forces involved, the directions of attacks by the troops of the Western allies and their probable results. The appendices to the plan contain information about the deployment of the Red Army troops (in English documents, as a rule, the term "Russian army" is used) and the Western allies, as well as cartographic material. The time of the Prime Minister's order to develop an operation plan is not indicated, but given the complexity of its preparation, the nature and volume of the documents themselves, there is every reason to assume that the Prime Minister's order was received by the planners in April 1945.

In 1999, the British government declassified the plan for Operation Unthinkable - "Unthinkable"developed on May 22, 1945 in case the USSR does not stop at the agreed boundaries of the zones of occupation, but continues its march to the West up to the Atlantic Ocean. Currently, this plan is stored in the National Archives of Great Britain. Churchill pointed out in comments on a draft plan submitted to him that the plan was a "precautionary measure" for what he hoped was a "purely hypothetical case."

The plan for Operation Unthinkable was first presented at a meeting of the chiefs of intelligence services in London on May 22, 1945: it began to be developed in April on the orders of Prime Minister Churchill. These documents are no longer a secret, and the cynicism of the Allies is striking: on July 1, 1945, 47 British divisions were to invade the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany, occupy Dresden, Berlin and Breslau with the support of tanks, break into Poland.

The British were going to destroy the aviation of the USSR, block the Baltic from the sea and organize sabotage in the Soviet rear. The British even planned to use captured Germans - to form 10-12 divisions from SS and Wehrmacht soldiers and transfer them to the front: "They will be glad to fight against the Bolsheviks"; as if the prisoners still wanted to fight - after the devastating defeat of Germany!

By January 1, 1946, the Allies hoped to "cleanse Europe" and dictate terms of peace to Moscow. Reading all this, it is disgusting to realize that the British, shaking hands with the allies, congratulating them on their victory over Hitler, were preparing to stick a knife in the USSR's back - not disdaining the help of yesterday's SS enemies.

So why didn't Operation Unthinkable happen? The British Chiefs of Staff suggested that a blitzkrieg would not work - it would be a protracted war. "The Russians will occupy Norway, Greece and possibly Turkey and Iraq... Holland and France will be defenseless before them."

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram published an article on the results of World War II. "What would Europe be like now if in the summer of 1945 Churchill had put into action a plan for attacking the USSR - Operation Unthinkable?" - writes "Al-Ah-ram". - After all, Hitler did not expect that four years after the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Russians would raise a red flag over the Reichstag. It is possible that the Soviet troops would have occupied London, forcing the British to build socialism."

The idea of ​​an attack was lukewarm by the Americans, but not because they were more diplomatic than the British. The USSR, they believed, could conclude an alliance with Japan - in this case, a confrontation in the Pacific Ocean and the involvement of the United States in a protracted conflict are inevitable; not a sea will be shed - an ocean of blood. And most importantly, the plan for Operation Unthinkable became known in Moscow, where it was handed over by the "Cambridge Five" of Soviet intelligence officers in Britain with Kim Philby. However, on June 29, 1945, the day before the planned start of the war, the Red Army suddenly changed its location for the insidious enemy. This was the decisive weight that shifted the scales of history - the order was not given to the Anglo-Saxon troops. Prior to this, the capture of Berlin, which was considered impregnable, showed the power of the Soviet Army and the military experts of the enemy were inclined to cancel the attack on the USSR. Marshal Georgy Zhukov began the regrouping of Soviet troops in Germany, reinforcing it with military equipment and manpower - the soldiers of Victory, who would not soon see their homeland and relatives. In London, they realized that they would have to refuse the strike ...

Meanwhile, only in May 1945 did the Red Army and the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition twice stand on the brink of conflict. The first time was when on May 6, 1945, the 16th Armored Division of the US Third Army (under the command of General George Patton), ignoring agreements with the USSR, captured the city of Pilsen, located in the center of the Soviet occupation zone. The goal of the Americans was the Skoda factory complex - the drawings of the bureau of Hans Kammler, the SS Obergruppenführer responsible for the Nazi miracle weapon program, were stored there.

On May 12, the Red Army entered Pilsen, but Patton's officers refused to give up control of the city. One of the commanders of the Soviet special forces, Captain Evgeny Olesinsky, promised to "throw the Americans out with bayonets." The "war of nerves" continued for a day, until the allies left.

The second time - when on May 2, 1945, detachments of Yugoslav partisans captured the city of Trieste in Italy. The allies demanded that Trieste be transferred under their control, but the partisan leader and future holder of the Soviet Order of Victory with diamonds, Josip Broz Tito, said - "This land belongs to Yugoslavia." The British dug in outside the city - skirmishes broke out between the partisans and the British at night. The Allies brought tanks and artillery to Trieste. British General William Morgan proposed dividing the disputed territory into two parts by the so-called "Blue Line", but Tito did not agree - he knew for certain that Stalin had declared that he "would give Yugoslavia any support." On May 22, 1945 (when the "Unthinkable" plan was discussed in London), soldiers of the 13th British Corps began to occupy the quarters of Trieste. Not accepting the battle, the Yugoslavs retreated behind the Blue Line. It was on this day that the third world war could really begin ...

On June 8, 1945, British military leaders wrote a conclusion to the plan for Operation Unthinkable to his Prime Minister, in which he assessed the state of the troops of the opposing sides and drew conclusions about the prospects for the planned war:

"a) ground forces
The Russian division differs in its composition from the allied division. Therefore, we counted the Russian divisions to their British equivalent. Our assessment of the overall balance of power in Europe as of July 1:

Allies (number of aircraft)			Russians (number of aircraft)
	tactical aviation	strategic aviation	tactical aviation	strategic aviation
Britain and the Dominions
Poland
Total

The superiority in the number of Russian aviation will be compensated for a certain time by the significant superiority of the Allies in its control and efficiency, especially strategic aviation. However, after a certain period of time in operations, our air force will be seriously weakened due to a lack of replenishment of aircraft and crews.
c) Naval Forces
The Allies can certainly ensure the dominant superiority of their forces at sea.
3. It is clear from the ratio of the ground forces of the parties that we do not have offensive capabilities with the aim of achieving quick success. Given, however, that Russian and Allied ground forces are in contact from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, we must be ready for operations in the land theater ...
4. Therefore, we believe that if a war breaks out, it will be beyond our ability to achieve a quick limited success, and we will find ourselves embroiled in a long war against superior forces. Moreover, the superiority of these forces may increase exorbitantly if American fatigue and indifference increase and they are drawn to their side by the magnet of the war in the Pacific.

The document was signed by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Alan Brooke and the Chiefs of Staff of the Navy and Air Force.

After the publication of materials about Operation Unthinkable, a well-known military historian, professor at the University of Edinburgh, John Erickson, expressed the opinion that "Churchill's plan" helps to explain "why Marshal Zhukov unexpectedly decided in June 1945 to regroup his forces, received orders from Moscow to strengthen the defenses and study in detail the deployment of the troops of the Western Allies. Now the reasons are clear: obviously, Churchill's plan became known to Moscow in advance and the Stalinist General Staff took appropriate countermeasures "...

Among military experts, there are two opinions about the results possible conflict in the summer of 1945 between the Soviet Union on the one hand and Britain and the USA on the other. Some are sure that "the Russians would definitely have been unlucky" and the USSR would have left horns and legs. "The United States then had only three atomic bombs,- said the secretary of the union of former French special forces " The world is our fatherland" Jean-Pierre Kandani, who thinks differently. - And it would hardly have been possible to use them - after all, not a single plane would have flown to the cities of the USSR through the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany: they would have been shot down by anti-aircraft guns. The Red Army, which had a unique the experience of storming European capitals, would easily deal with the allies - in two or three months the Russians would have occupied Italy, France and Britain.

TOP SECRET

War Cabinet

Joint Planning Headquarters

OPERATION UNIMAGINED

Report of the Joint Planning Staff

1. We have analyzed the possibility of conducting Operation Unthinkable. As directed, the analysis was based on the following assumptions:

a) The action receives the full support of public opinion from both the British Empire and the United States, respectively, the morale of the British and American troops remains high.

b) Great Britain and the USA have the full support of the Polish troops and can rely on the use of German labor and the remaining German industrial potential.

c) We cannot rely on any help from the armies of other Western powers, although we have bases and equipment on their territory, the use of which may have to be resorted to.

d) The Russians enter into an alliance with Japan.

f) Until July 1, the implementation of plans for the redeployment and demobilization of troops continues, then it stops.

In order to comply with the regime of increased secrecy, consultations with the headquarters of the ministries in charge of the types of armed forces were not held.

Target:

2. The general political goal of the operation is to impose the will of the United States and the British Empire on the Russians. Although the "will" of the two countries can be seen as a matter directly related only to Poland, it does not follow at all that the extent of our involvement in the conflict will necessarily be limited. A quick military success may or may not induce the Russians to submit to our will at least temporarily. If they want total war, they will get it.

By the end of the war, the Soviet army, although it had lost millions of its soldiers on the fronts, was able to pierce not only Berlin, but also take all of Europe under its protectorate - as some Soviet military historians say. However, in the spring of 1945, no one in Moscow even thought of violating the allied agreements, much less plotting how, after the storming of Berlin, to throw the allies into the Atlantic Ocean.

W. CHURCHILL TO THE JOINT PLANNING STAFF OF THE MILITARY CABINET ABOUT THE "UNTHINKABLE" PLAN

JOINT MILITARY CABINET PLANNING STAFF

I have read the commander's remarks on the Inconceivable Limoy, dated June 8th, which demonstrate a two-to-one Russian superiority on land.
2. If the Americans withdraw troops to their zone and transfer the bulk of the armed forces to the United States and the Pacific region, the Russians will be able to advance to the North Sea and the Atlantic. A clear plan must be drawn up on how we can defend our Island, bearing in mind that France and the Netherlands will not be able to resist Russian superiority at sea. What naval forces do we need and where should they be deployed? What size army do we need and how should it be dispersed? The location of airfields in Denmark could give us a huge advantage and would allow us to keep open the passage to the Baltic, where the main naval operations should be carried out. Possession of footholds in the Netherlands and France should be considered.
3. Keeping the code name "Unthinkable", the command suggests that this is just a preliminary draft of what I hope is still a purely hypothetical possibility.

In April 1945, the Allies presented our troops as exhausted and exhausted, and military equipment as worn out to the limit. Their military specialists were greatly surprised by the power of the Soviet Army, which it demonstrated in the capture of Berlin, which they considered impregnable. There is no doubt the correctness of the conclusion of the great historian V. Falin - Stalin's decision to storm Berlin in early May 1945 prevented the Third World War. This is confirmed by recently declassified documents. Otherwise, Berlin would have been handed over to the "allies" without a fight, and the combined forces of all of Europe and North America would have fallen upon the USSR.

It was then that Churchill gave orders to stockpile captured German weapons with an eye to their possible use against the USSR, placing the soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht who surrendered into divisions in the land of Schleswig-Holstein and in southern Denmark. Then the general meaning of the insidious undertaking begun by the British leader will become clear. The British took under their protection German units that surrendered without resistance, sent them to South Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. In total, about 15 German divisions were stationed there. The weapons were stockpiled, and the personnel were trained for future fights.

The American General Patton, the commander of the tank armies, directly stated that he did not plan to stop at the demarcation line along the Elbe, agreed upon in Yalta, but to move on. To Poland, from there to Ukraine and Belarus - and so on to Stalingrad. And end the war where Hitler did not have time and could not finish it. He called us none other than "the heirs of Genghis Khan, who must be expelled from Europe." After the end of the war, Patton was appointed governor of Bavaria, and was soon removed from his post for Nazi sympathies.

London denied the existence of such a plan for a long time, but a few years ago the British declassified part of their archives, and among the documents were papers relating to the Unthinkable plan.

Eisenhower admits in his memoirs that the Second Front already at the end of February 1945 practically did not exist: the Germans rolled back to the east without resistance. The tactics of the Germans were as follows: to hold, as far as possible, positions along the entire line of Soviet-German confrontation until the virtual Western and real Eastern fronts closed, and the American and British troops, as it were, would take over from the Wehrmacht formations in repelling the "Soviet threat" hovering over Europe.

Churchill at this time, in correspondence, telephone conversations with Roosevelt, is trying to convince at all costs to stop the Russians, not to let them into Central Europe. This explains the significance that the capture of Berlin had acquired by that time.

I must say that the Western allies could move east a little faster than they could if the headquarters of Montgomery, Eisenhower and Alexander (the Italian theater of operations) planned their actions better, coordinated forces and means more competently, spent less time on internal squabbles and finding a common denominator. Washington, while Roosevelt was alive, for various reasons, was in no hurry to put an end to cooperation with Moscow. And for Churchill, "the Soviet Moor did his job, and he should have been removed."

Remember, Yalta ended on February 11. In the first half of February 12, the guests flew home. In the Crimea, by the way, it was agreed that the aviation of the three powers would adhere to certain lines of demarcation in their operations. And on the night of February 12-13, Western Allied bombers wiped Dresden off the face of the earth, then walked through the main enterprises in Slovakia, in the future Soviet zone of occupation of Germany, so that we would not get the factories intact. In 1941, Stalin offered the British and Americans to bomb the oilfields in Ploiesti using Crimean airfields. No, they did not touch them then. They were raided in 1944, when Soviet troops approached the main center of oil production, which had supplied Germany with fuel throughout the war.

One of the main targets of the raids on Dresden were the bridges over the Elbe. The Churchillian directive, which was shared by the Americans, was in effect, to delay the Red Army as far as possible in the East. The briefing before the departure of the British crews said: it is necessary to demonstrate to the Soviets the capabilities of the allied bomber aviation. Here they demonstrated. And, not just once. In April 1945 Potsdam was bombed. Destroyed Oranienburg. We were notified - the pilots made a mistake. It seems that they were aiming at Zossen, where the headquarters of the German Air Force was located. The classic "distraction statement" that has never been numbered. Oranienburg was bombed on the orders of Marshall and Lehi, because there were laboratories that worked with uranium. So that neither the laboratories, nor the staff, nor the equipment, nor the materials fall into our hands, everything turned to dust.

Attempts were made to influence partners by good example. According to Vladimir Semyonov, a Soviet diplomat, I know the following. Stalin invited Andrey Smirnov, then head of the 3rd European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and part-time Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR, to discuss, with the participation of Semenov, options for actions in the territories assigned to Soviet control.

Smirnov reported that our troops, pursuing the enemy, had gone beyond the demarcation lines in Austria, as they had been agreed upon at Yalta, and suggested de facto staking out our new positions in anticipation of how the United States would behave in similar situations. Stalin interrupted him and said: "Wrong. Write a telegram to the Allied Powers." And he dictated: "The Soviet troops, pursuing units of the Wehrmacht, were forced to cross the line previously agreed between us. I want to hereby confirm that after the end of hostilities, the Soviet side will withdraw its troops within the established zones of occupation."

On April 12, the US Embassy, ​​government and military institutions received Truman's instruction: all documents signed by Roosevelt are not subject to execution. This was followed by a command to toughen the position in relation to the Soviet Union. On April 23, Truman holds a meeting in the White House, where he declares: “Enough, we are no longer interested in an alliance with the Russians, and therefore we may not fulfill the agreements with them. We will solve the problem of Japan without the help of the Russians.” He set out to "make the Yalta agreements as if they did not exist."

Truman was close to not hesitate to announce the break in cooperation with Moscow publicly. The military literally rebelled against Truman, with the exception of General Patton, who commanded the US armored forces. By the way, the military also thwarted the “Unthinkable” plan. They were interested in the entry of the Soviet Union into the war with Japan. Their arguments to Truman: if the USSR does not come out on the side of the United States, then the Japanese will transfer the millionth Kwantung Army to the islands and fight with the same fanaticism as they did in Okinawa. As a result, the Americans will lose only one to two million people killed.
In addition, the Americans at that time had not yet tested a nuclear bomb. And public opinion in the States would not have understood such a betrayal then. American citizens then mostly sympathized with the Soviet Union. They saw what losses we are suffering for the sake of the common victory over Hitler. As a result, according to eyewitnesses, Truman broke down a bit and agreed with the arguments of his military experts. “Well, since you think so that they should help us with Japan, let them help, but we end our friendship with them,” Truman concludes. Hence such a tough conversation with Molotov, who was perplexed about what had suddenly happened. Truman here already relied on the atomic bomb.

In addition, the US military, as well as their British counterparts, believed that starting a war with the Soviet Union was easier than successfully ending it. The risk seemed too great to them - the storming of Berlin made a sobering impression on the British. The conclusion of the chiefs of staff of the British troops was unequivocal: a blitzkrieg against the Russians would not work, and they did not dare to get involved in a protracted war.

So, the position of the US military is the first reason. The second is the Berlin operation. Third, Churchill lost the election and was left without power. And finally, the fourth - the British military leaders themselves were against the implementation of this plan, because the Soviet Union, as they were convinced, was too strong.

The United States not only did not invite England to participate in this war, they squeezed her out of Asia. Under the 1942 agreement, the US line of responsibility was not limited to Singapore, but also concerned China, Australia, and New Zealand.

Stalin, and this was a major analyst, having brought everything together, said: “You show what your aviation can do, and I will show you what we can do on the ground.” He demonstrated the striking firepower of our Armed Forces so that neither Churchill, nor Eisenhower, nor Marshall, nor Patton, nor anyone else would have a desire to fight the USSR. Behind the determination of the Soviet side to take Berlin and reach the lines of demarcation, as they were marked in Yalta, there was an extremely important task - to prevent the British leader's adventure with the implementation of the "Unthinkable" plan, that is, the escalation of the Second World War into the Third. If this happened, there would be thousands and thousands of times more victims!

The political scenario of the Berlin operation belonged to Stalin. The general author of its military component was Georgy Zhukov. Stalin insisted on carrying out the Berlin operation. He wanted to show the initiators of the "Unthinkable" the firepower and strike power of the Soviet armed forces. With a hint, the outcome of the war is decided not in the air and at sea, but on land. The battle for Berlin sobered many dashing heads and thus fulfilled its political, psychological and military purpose. And there were more than enough heads in the West, drugged by a relatively easy success in the spring of 1945.

The storming of Berlin, the hoisting of the banner of Victory over the Reichstag were, of course, not only a symbol or the final chord of the war. And least of all propaganda. It was a matter of principle for the army to enter the enemy's lair and thereby mark the end of the most difficult war in Russian history. From here, from Berlin, the fighters believed, the fascist beast crawled out, bringing immeasurable grief to the Soviet people, the peoples of Europe, and the whole world. The Red Army came there in order to start a new chapter in our history, and in the history of Germany itself, in the history of mankind ...

The Allies wanted to steal Victory Day from us by accepting the surrender of the Germans in Reims on May 7th. This, in fact, a separate deal, fit into the "Unthinkable" plan. It is necessary that the Germans capitulate only to the Western allies and be able to participate in the Third World War. Hitler's successor Dönitz at this time declared: "We will stop the war before England and the USA, which has lost its meaning, but we will continue the war with the Soviet Union as before." The capitulation at Reims was in fact the brainchild of Churchill and Dönitz. The surrender agreement was signed on May 7 at 2:45.

We had to work hard to force Truman to confirm the surrender in Berlin, more precisely, in Karlhorst on May 9 with the participation of the USSR and the allies, to agree on May 9 Victory Day, because Churchill insisted: consider May 7 as the day the war ended. By the way, in Reims there was another forgery. The text of the agreement on the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies was approved by the Yalta Conference, it was sealed with their signatures by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. But the Americans pretended to have forgotten about the existence of the document, which, by the way, was in the safe of Chief of Staff Eisenhower Smith. Eisenhower's entourage, under the leadership of Smith, drew up a new document, "cleared" of the Yalta provisions that were undesirable for the allies. At the same time, the document was signed by General Smith on behalf of the Allies, and the Soviet Union was not even mentioned, as if it had not participated in the war. Here is a performance played out in Reims. The document of surrender at Reims was handed over to the Germans before it was sent to Moscow.

Eisenhower and Montgomery refused to participate in the joint Victory Parade in the former capital of the Reich. Together with Zhukov, they were supposed to take this parade. The planned Victory Parade in Berlin nevertheless took place, but it was hosted by Marshal Zhukov alone. It was in July forty-fifth. And in Moscow, the Victory Parade took place, as you know, on June 24th.

Fortunately, the military of the West turned out to be smarter than their politicians. They calculated that if Churchill's Operation Unthinkable had begun, its ending would have been obvious: a victorious red flag would have been hoisted over Big Ben. With a hammer and sickle - the same as above the Reichstag.

After the failure of Operation Valkyrie and attempts to conclude a separate peace with Reichsführer Himmler, Winston Churchill gives a secret order to prepare a plan of attack on the USSR.

After the capture of Berlin in the 45th, when it became clear that the war was over, the planet, it turns out, was hanging by a thread from the Third World War.

Its instigator (as in the case of World War II) was Great Britain. So says Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Academician of the Academy of Military Sciences Igor Panarin.

As a scientist, I am not used to being unfounded,” Igor Nikolayevich argues. - Let me remind you that in October 1998, first in the British, then in the world press, the first reports were published about Churchill's military plans for the Soviet Union, developed in the spring of 1945. The basis for these messages were the documents of the State Archives of Great Britain.

Recently, the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences received photocopies of these documents, which makes it possible to get acquainted with them in more detail. The key to them is the plan for Operation Unthinkable, dated May 22, 1945, prepared by the Joint Planning Staff of the War Cabinet.

The plan gives an assessment of the situation, formulates the goals of the operation, defines the forces involved, the directions of attacks by the troops of the Western allies and their probable results. The appendices to the plan contain information about the deployment of the troops of the Soviet Army (in English documents, as a rule, the term "Russian army" is used) and the Western allies, as well as cartographic material. Considering the complexity of the preparation, the nature and volume of the documents themselves, there is every reason to believe that the task was given by the Prime Minister to the planners in April 1945.

After the failure of Operation Valkyrie and attempts to conclude a separate peace with Reichsführer Himmler, Winston Churchill gives a secret order to prepare a plan of attack on the USSR. Already on May 22, such a plan was ready.

But after all, not even two weeks had passed after the surrender of Germany, the Second World War continued, militaristic Japan had not yet been defeated. It is hard to believe that someone could make plans for the Third World War.

Unfortunately, not everything lends itself to logic, not only philistine, but even politicians and historians. And yet. The strike was to be delivered by a half-million grouping of Anglo-American troops through Northern Germany. Together with them, a 100,000-strong German army, formed from the remnants of the Nazi Wehrmacht by order of Churchill, was to act. In Hitler's military uniform, with Hitler's weapons, under the command of all the same officers.

The Third World War was to begin on July 1, 1945 with the transition to a decisive offensive of 47 Western divisions. And what prevented this?

The fact that Stalin learned in advance from Soviet intelligence about the insidious plan of the former allies. On June 29, 1945, Soviet troops in Germany unexpectedly redeployed, taking up more advantageous positions. And the Soviet leader at the same time organized a special information and propaganda operation, during which the whole world learned about Churchill's German army. He was forced to disband it. The plan of military aggression against the USSR failed. But the intent itself is telling.

It has been heard that even before the end of the war, when its outcome became obvious, England developed a secret propaganda plan, according to which it was she who should be named the winner.

Yes, this was the main goal of the information war. Let us turn to the top-secret Rankin plan approved in Quebec and carefully concealed from the USSR. It turns out that the famous operation "Overlord" - the landing of allied forces in northern France on June 6, 1944 - was agreed by the British MI6 and the US Office of Strategic Forces with the German generals as part of the operation "Valkyrie".

The basis was a conspiracy against Hitler, which was organized by the head of the OSS Donovan and the head of MI6 Menzies, using contacts in German army circles through an agent of influence, Admiral Canaris. According to the control centers of the British Empire (Committee of 300, Round Table, etc.), Hitler had already fulfilled all the tasks assigned to him and interfered with the implementation of plans to establish a post-war world order and to weaken the USSR as much as possible.

Canaris, being a supporter of the ideas of the British Empire, ensured the contacts of the German generals with MI6. The key figure promoted by British intelligence inside the Wehrmacht was Rommel, who was supposed to replace Hitler and continue the war in the east in alliance with the armed formations of the Polish government in exile in London.

If we talk about the landing of the allies in Normandy, then pay attention to who commanded German troops in the landing zone - Field Marshal Rommel, the most active participant in the conspiracy against Hitler, the future German Napoleon (according to the plan of MI6). Based on the above facts, it can be hypothesized that D-Day is one of the largest disinformation operations of the 20th century.

“D-Day” is another Munich conspiracy (I remind you that among other conspiracies is the rescue of British troops near Dunkern and the promise given to Hitler on May 10, 1941, not to open the Second Front in case of his attack on the USSR on June 22, 1941).

That is disinformation. To whom was it directed? The main object was, of course, the USSR. But it touched the whole world. Most likely, the landing of the allies in Normandy on June 6, 1944 was a carefully prepared covert operation to simulate an invasion (the conspiracy of director Churchill with Field Marshal Rommel through the channels of the special services).

Recently, you expressed a completely “seditious” idea for the townsfolk that by the beginning of World War II, Germany was also incited by Great Britain and the United States.

What is her sedition? I can back up my words with facts. By 1933, key branches of German industry and large banks were under the control of American-British finance capital. At the same time, the financing of the Nazi party and personally Hitler, who was being prepared to attack the USSR, went on.

From the autumn of 1929, after the collapse of the American Stock Exchange provoked by the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System (FRS), the third stage of the strategy of the financial circles of the British Empire began to be implemented. The Fed and the Morgan banking house decide to stop lending to Germany, triggering a banking crisis and an economic depression in Europe.

In September 1931, the British Empire abandoned the gold standard, deliberately destroying the international payment system and completely cutting off the financial oxygen of the Weimar Republic. The NSDAP, on the other hand, takes second place in the Reichstag, after which its funding from abroad is activated. The main link between the largest German industrialists and foreign financiers is Schacht, the president of the Reichsbank.

On January 4, 1932, the meeting of the head of the Bank of England, Norman, with Hitler took place, at which a secret agreement was concluded on financing the NSDAP. American politicians, the Dulles brothers, also attended this meeting.

Thus, as early as 1932, the Dulles brothers actively participated in the implementation of the global plans of the British Empire. A few months later, the German political elite finally decided on the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich. Implementation of the fourth stage of the strategy begins.

The attitude of the Anglo-American ruling circles towards the new government became extremely benevolent. When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which naturally called into question the payment of war debts, neither the British Empire nor France presented him with claims about payments. Moreover, after Schacht's trip to the United States in May 1933 and his meeting with the president and major Wall Street bankers, America provided Germany with new loans totaling $1 billion.

And in June, during a trip to London and a meeting with Norman, Schacht seeks the provision of a British loan of $ 2 billion, as well as the reduction, and then the termination of payments on old loans. Thus, the Nazis got what the previous governments could not achieve.

In the summer of 1934, the British Empire concluded an Anglo-German transfer agreement, which became one of the foundations of British policy towards the Third Reich. By the end of the 1930s, Germany became the main trading partner of England. The Schroeder Bank becomes Germany's chief agent in Britain, and in 1936 its New York branch merged with the Rockefellers to form an investment bank.

From the point of view of the information war, the Great Depression represented, in my opinion, a strategic information operation to preserve the world domination of the British Empire by organizing a world economic crisis and the Second World War. In this case, one can only be glad that Britain did not achieve these goals.

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