Soviet reaction
- Created by: Basital
- Created on: 27-05-17 19:02
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- Direct response to the Truman Doctrine & The Marshall Plan
- To extend political and economic control over Eastern Europe
- 1949
- Comecon
- The Council for Mutual Assistance
- In response to the Marshall plan
- Supposed to financially support countries in Eastern Europe
- It was actually used to:
- Control the economies of these states
- Give the USSR access to their resources
- Encourage economic specialisation within the Soviet block
- Czechoslovakia & East Germany concentrated on heavy industry
- Romania, Hungary & Bulgaria specialised in the production of food and raw materials
- Comecon
- 1947
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