In the UK, the document was declassified from the National Archive, according to which the British planned to conduct fighting against the Red Army immediately after graduating from the Great Patriotic War in order to weaken the effect of the USSR on European countries, reports The Telegraph.
According to the text of the document, the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill already in early May 1945 ordered his military headquarters to develop an “unthinkable” operation in the form of an offensive against the Red Army. It is noted that Churchill decided to this, indignant by Duples of Joseph Stalin, who was not going to abandon its control over the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, despite the agreements at the conference in Yalta and the Hope of West to support the USSR plans for building a democratic post-war Europe.
The operation is “unthinkable” was supposed to start on July 1, 1945. The British were going to hold a two-month attack on Soviet troops in Berlin and beyond, throwing the Red Army to Oder. Schemes and maps of the planned occurrence were compiled, more than eight thousand people were to participate in the operation – American, British, Canadian and Polish forces. The commander was supposed to be General Jeffrey Thompson, who had experience in Eastern Europe.
In addition, realizing that the number of the Red Army will exceed the forces of allies, Thompson offered to attract the rearmed forces of the German Wehrmacht and the SS to combat actions. However, other participants in the development of the operation spoke strongly against this. In particular, Chief Military Advisor to Churchill General Hastings Ismie was horrified by the re-equipment plan for the German army, calling such a policy “absolutely impossible for leaders of democratic countries,” reminding colleagues on the role of the Soviet Union in the victory over Germany and considering that the attack on the former allies immediately after the end of the war It would be a catastrophe for the moral spirit of compatriots.
As a result, the plan for the operation is “unthinkable”, as reported in the document, was rejected on June 8, 1945, since most of the military command was skeptical about this idea.