Column: World Cup offers chance for respite from Russia heat

PARIS (AP) It was late 1945, and distrust of Russia was rising. British military planners had recently hatched secret plans, codenamed "Unthinkable," to attack the Soviet Union. Winston Churchill's famous "iron curtain" speech that foreshadowed the onset of the Cold War was just months away.https://ift.tt/2Gkc7C5 (AP) It was late 1945, and distrust of Russia was rising. British military planners had recently hatched secret plans, codenamed "Unthinkable," to attack the Soviet Union. Winston Churchill's famous "iron curtain" speech that foreshadowed the onset of the Cold War was just months away. via soccer