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Question
What was the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan?
Solution
The Soviets was reluctant to accept the terms of the ‘Marshall Plan’ as it was prepared by the capitalist state USA and it would have increased the influence of the USA in Europe. To secure the communist dominance in Europe, following the Marshall plan, the Soviets launched the Molotov plan ‘COMECON’ and ‘Comminform’. The Russian Foreign Minister Molotov denounced the whole idea as ‘dollar imperialism’ and saw it as a blatant American device for gaining control over Eastern Europe.
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