Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died
by kemiller on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:13PM
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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’t bubble things.
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"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
The UK was already aligned with US ideology.
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.
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.