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Well, It’s Certainly Named Correctly

Ran into this today, of interest to history nuts:

“Operation Unthinkable“: a study by the British government of a possible option in response to Stalin’s imposition of a puppet Polish government. That option being invasion of the USSR.\’c2\~

This study was done in May of 1945, literally days after the fall of Germany, and while Japan was still in the war.

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