Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "What If? Operation Unthinkable" video.

  1. Dream on... the allied "Manhattan project" was, up until 1950, struggling to produce ONE nuclear weapon a month.
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  2. I laugh at the cluelessness of millenials in comments sections who decry that 'The "west" let the commies have eastern Europe.... we should be ashamed'. They ALWAYS cluelessly whinge it from behind the safety of a keyboard in their parent's spare bedroom 80 years after the events in central Europe in summer 1945 onwards. I usually tell them it is such a pity that they were not there PERSONALLY in summer 1945 eager to sacrifice THEIR OWN lives to push the soviet steamroller back to its 1939 borders & save eastern Europe, instead of whining like bitches that millions of OTHER people didn't sacrifice THEIR lives for the good of eastern Europe 80 years ago.
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  3. The simple fact is that the world at the end of WW2 was a complete & impossibly complex mess. NO-ONE (apart from the USSR & moreso the US) was a winner. The UK also had to "take it up the ass" just as Poland and eastern Europe did, having completely bankrupted itself in the service of opposing German domination of Europe. We can argue all day about the injustices and problems of each and every nation. The facts are that Britain, who went to war to stop German domination of Europe, by 1942 was broken, and had became the "third wheel" in international matters. Eastern Europe's fate was secretly decided between Stalin and Roosevelt/Truman. Churchill had already by Spring 1945 directed the British Imperial General staff to draw up plans to push back the soviet steamroller back to its pre-1939 borders, plans named as "Operation unthinkable". When completed they were presented to the senior allied western partner the US govt, who immediately sidelined them. Unbeknown to Churchill and the British at that time, Roosevelt and then Truman had already carried out secret negotiations with Stalin and the soviets to which the British had not been party. These negotiations were basically that the US & USSR (now the two world "superpowers") would form their own "spheres of influence" in Europe, and the US agreed to allow the USSR to control eastern and central Europe on TWO conditions. 1. The USSR would Immediately declare war on Japan. This was of the UTMOST importance to the US govt, as the uncertain "Manhattan project" had not yet come to fruition at that point, and the US govt was TERRIFIED that it may have had to carry out "Operation Downfall", that is the US invasion of the Japanese home islands, with resultant hugely unpopular terrible losses to US troops in the run up to a postwar US election. 2. The USSR would agree to sign up to the then embryonic "United Nations". Both of which happened. When British intelligence informed the Churchill govt that these negotiations had taken place, Churchill was horrified, but realised Britain's hopeless position, and so sought to salvage what he could from the fait accompli of the US/USSR betrayal by then negotiating with Stalin to keep the Soviets out of Greece (thereby containing communist access to the Mediterranean) by way of Churchill's "dirty secret" known as the "percentages document". No-one argues that Eastern Europe did well out of WW2.... but they WERE saved from 1000 years of nazi tyranny, only to then suffer a much lesser communist one. The British for their part lost the human history's largest empire due to the ruinous costs of saving Europe from the "1000 year third Reich".
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