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В связи с этим постом labas, покопалась в документах американского министерства иностранных дел в период переговоров о ленд-лизе для ссср. Удивила одна депеша от 11 сентября 1941 года:

861.24/642
Memorandums of Conversation, by the Secretary of State
[WASHINGTON,] September 11, 1941.

Participants: The President, the Secretary of State, Mr. Harry Hopkins, and the Soviet Ambassador, Mr. Constantine A. Oumansky

The Soviet Ambassador called on the President at the former's request. The Secretary of State and Mr. Harry Hopkins were also present.
The Ambassador brought up the matter of Soviet requests for credit, war materials, and supplies, which included a request to apply our lease-lend policy to Russia. The President explained in some detail to the Ambassador the extreme difficulty of getting the necessary authority from Congress on account of the prejudice or hostility to Russia and the unpopularity of Russia among large groups in this country who exercise great political power in Congress. The President also referred to the fact that Russia does have churches and does permit religious worship under the Constitution of 1936. He suggested that if Moscow could get some publicity back to this country regarding the freedom of religion [87] during the next few days without waiting for the Harriman mission to reach Moscow, it might have a very fine educational effect before the next lease-lend bill comes up in Congress. The Ambassador agreed that he would attend to this matter.
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[87] For correspondence concerning the interest of the United States in the freedom of religious worship in the Soviet Union, see pp. 995 ff.

Т.е. Рузвельт попросил советского посла, чтоб тот побыстренькому организовал пропаганду в Америке о религиозных свободах в ссср, чтобы это повлияло на ближайшее голосование в Конгрессе по ленд-лизу. Учитывая всем известный руссо-патриотический и религиозный поворот в советской политике времен войны, получается, что в части религии это было связано еще и с нуждой в американской промышленной помощи? Вот те на.

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