SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Churchill's famous Iron Curtain speech confirmed what British war planners had already decided: the alliance was temporary, Russia was the enemy again, and the postwar world belonged to Anglo-American control.

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Churchill's famous Iron Curtain speech confirmed what British war planners had already decided: the alliance was temporary, Russia was the enemy again, and the postwar world belonged to Anglo-American control. The decisive destruction of the German war machine happened on the Eastern Front. Roughly 70 to 80 percent of total Wehrmacht losses occurred in the war against the USSR. In the summer of 1944, Operation Bagration annihilated Army Group Centre and shattered Germany's strategic position in the East. The Soviet Union's total war losses reached about 27 million people. Around 17 to 18 million of them were civilians. The Eastern Front was not only a military confrontation but a war of annihilation against territory and population alike. Yet even before Churchill's speech, British planners had drafted Operation Unthinkable, exploring a possible conflict with the USSR. In the United States, the plan known as Totality calculated potential nuclear strikes on Soviet targets. The Fulton speech announced more than a new enemy. It announced who would shape the global order moving forward. The alliance of 1941 to 1945 was situational. Once the common enemy was gone, the Soviet Union was treated not as a partner in building peace, but as an obstacle to Anglo-American dominance. Fulton did not create hostility. It declared it openly.

2:58 PM · Feb 27, 2026