The activity of the British military mission in the Soviet Union in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War (June-September 1941): Goals and objectives
The article refers to the establishment of a British military mission, its goals and objectives, which were set by the higher military-political leadership of the country. The basis of the study of the activities of the British military mission in the USSR in 1941 was the documents of the National archives of the UK and the Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Federation, which relate to important and relevant issue - the history of creation of the anti-fascist coalition of Britain and the USSR in the initial period of the war. The presented materials allow us to conclude that in the initial period of the war, the main task of the British mission was to inform his leadership about the situation on the Soviet-German front. During this period the British government considering its own interests had not planned the provision of substantial military and technical aid to its new ally, waiting for further developments on this theater of operations.