operation unthinkable

Between Lend-Lease officials in the Soviet Union, as well as Allied and Polish military intelligence in Eastern Europe, let us say discover Hitlerian-style death camps are discovered in the Soviet Union. The Soviets certainly have the means (a dictatorship with a deep ingrained personality cult...

I have been looking into a number of threads about Operation Unthinkable as the idea has quite taken me, though something barely anyone seems to touch on is just how long a war between the Western allies and the Soviet Union in 1945 would last... Regardless of whether people believe it would be...

In this scenario the Western Allies, being United States, United Kingdom and her Commonwealth , France, the Dutch, Swedes, and Norwegians launch Operation Unthinkable, which will be referred to as Operation Heliacan Freedom in the timeline, in 1946 to neuter the spread of Soviet influence...

I've heard it argued, I think persuasively, that even without lend lease the Soviets would likely have beat the Nazis back. It would have taken longer and would have exacted a much larger toll on the Soviets, but in the end they probably would have fended off Germany. I'm curious what would...

So for context, Spain was a fascist country until 1970 and Operation Unthinkable probably would have happened in the late 1940s. I'm wonder where Spain would side itself, it would definitely not want to side with the Soviet Communists as they would obviously be heavily anti-communist but I feel...

This is extremely implausible, but I guess it's technically not impossible. So how would the general public of the United Kingdom and United States react if Operation Unthinkable is somehow actually carried out, with the Soviets not being the aggressors and doing nothing to provoke an all out...

Which of the following would have been more costly for the Western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom, etc.) in terms of blood and treasure that would have been spent: Operation Unthinkable (that is, a war with the USSR launched almost immediately after the defeat of Nazi Germany...

Ok, new idea for a realistic C&C: Red Alert 1: Operation Unthinkable happens. What happens to WW2 if it does, regardless of how prepared the Soviets are?

(Couldn't find anything in the forum search, so I'll try here.) As the title asks, what were the ultimate goals of Operation Unthinkable? I know the overall goal was to push the Soviet Union out of its recently conquered territory in Eastern Europe, but I'm interested in how the borders could've...

What if NATO invaded the Soviet Union and the other socialist nations at some point during the cold war? Im talking about an all out attack on the Warsaw Pact by NATO. Every Warsaw Pact war plan depicted a NATO attack, and the following defense and counter offensive. Though the soviets had a...

What if nuclear weapons never existed? What if the people who lead up their invention never excised, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, etc... or if the thought of inventing them never occurs to anyone. How would this change the end of World War Two and the cold war? Operation...

What if Japan was not expansionist pre and during World War Two? What if they just accepted their empire and didn't anymore for some reason. Would America still enter the war? And with full focus on Germany how would their downfall play out? Or would it? Would nuclear weapons be developed as...

The Crucible of Absolution Chapter 1: An Unlikely Führer May 7, 1945 The Führer is dead, he and his love, Eva Braun, thrown into a ditch to burn so as to spare them from the humiliation the Soviets would treat them with, dead or alive. He had been slowly losing it for several years, with...

In OTL, Churchill advocated the idea of the Allies attacking the USSR once they defeated Nazi Germany (Operation Unthinkable). However, the plan was deemed unfeasible (understandably, due to Soviet manpower and Allied war exhaustion) and thus was not executed. But what if Nazi Germany's...

With a POD of January 1941 or later, through what series of events would it be possible for the Soviet Union to control 70% of the Mediterranean coast by 1950? What would be the geopolitical affects of such a situation?