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Not sure how a Marshall plan would have worked since, unlike Germany, we were not occupiers. Our ability to reshape their system was limited. Not that we didn

Not sure how a Marshall plan would have worked since, unlike Germany, we were not occupiers. Our ability to reshape their system was limited. Not that we didn’t bubble things.

lapcat 4y ago
"Somewhat more aid per capita was also directed toward the Allied nations, with less for those that had been part of the Axis or remained neutral. The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total). The next highest contributions went to France" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
- hetman 4y ago
  The UK was already aligned with US ideology.
  - lapcat 4y ago
    So was Russia, actually. Yeltsin went all-in on "shock therapy" and rapid privatization of the economy. If anything, Yeltsin was too aligned with US capitalist ideology.
    - hetman 4y ago
      Capitalism isn't the entirety of US ideology, and I would hardly say Russia was aligned given how vastly different their outcomes were compared to other eastern European nations.
    - kemiller 4y ago
      I think the point is that the UK only needed rebuilding, not fundamentally restructuring.