What If? Operation Unthinkable

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Sources:

Stapfer, Hans-Heiri. Greer, Don. Gebhardt, David. Messerschmitt Me 262 (United States: Squadron/Signal Publications, 2006).

Walker, Jonathan. Operation Unthinkable The Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945 (United Kingdom: The History Press, 2013).

Armchair Team Credits:

[TheArmchairHistorian]

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[jkuhl]

Imagine the poor Poles if this actually happened.

"THIS IS THE FOURTH TIME IN 6 YEARS WE'VE BEEN INVADED. PLEASE. STOP."

[Okos-anim]

Armchair Historian has started his "Alternate History Arc"

[TheFir]

So... The endings are basically:

Scenario 1: Cold War Premium
Scenario 2: NATO Speed Run
Scenario 3: Red Alert 3

[TCYT]

Soldier: YAY FINALLY WW2 IS OVER NO MORE SUFFERING
Churchill:get ready guys we are going to invade the USSR

[HildaGoneril]

It suddenly became Operation Thinkable.

[ethanton]

It feels surreal that the same art style, channel, and good ol' voice are now teaching me alt history! Wow!

[JanHenk-kb]

The thing is; Soviet aircraft werent built for high altitude combat. 99% of air combat on the Eastern Front occured at lower altitudes, so there seemed to be no need to optimize Soviet aircraft for high altitude roles. Only later did designs like the MiG-7 high altitude fighter appear on drawing boards, but the majority of aircraft would still be Yak's and Lavochkin's, which had inferior high altitude performance compared to US Thunderbolts and Mustangs. This means that Soviet fighters would see little, if any, succes against the Allied bombing effort.

[Classified]

Imagine if General Patton discovered about Operation Unthinkable, he would have instantly been on board right away😂☠️

[jacobberg]

Alternate History Hub was right, he's infected the rest of youtube with the genre, what has he done and how can we thank him?

[bradleyheath]

Will we get a video on operation downfall aka the planned invasion of Japan in 1945?

[mrmuhammedalfadhli]

"Why don't aliens come here and visit us?"

Average human disagreements:💀

[mr_reynard]

My reaction to this video, as a german person living in the former Russian-occupied area of Germany:
"Oh god, oh no. Thats gonna leave a lot of double-ruined cities"

[thepie]

I think Churchill and McArthur would get along pretty well.

[chaskafitzpatrick]

Truman : "War's over! Now there shall be peace!"
Churchill and Stalin: "Yes... Peace"

[Trooper-dt]

Considering we have an actual name (the Lost Generation) for the number of missing young people between the start of WW1 and the end of WW2, I'm really scared to think about the demographical changes globally from a third World War right before birth rates globally could recover, especially since this war would no doubt require more manpower on all sides combined than WWII.

[seddybear]

would love to have a battlefield game set in a alternate 1945 centered around operation unthinkable.

[jokodihaynes]

Former waffen SS volunteers fought in Korea and Indochina

[uria]

Who remembers when a lot of people believed that Russia had more soldiers than any nation had ammo

[FEDERAL]

"Operation Unthinkable" aka Churchill's last attempt to avoid getting his ass clapped by Clement Attley in the 1946 UK General Elections.