Response to query from 1141B
Evidence suggests that Hungary, at least in the initial stages, like Poland and Czechosolovakia was interested in the Marshall Plan. However, eventually due to Soviet pressure and direction, all of them rejected the aid. Hence, the Marshall Plan led to economic division in the Cold War as the Soviet came up with the Molotov Plan and then COMECON.
Evidence suggests that Hungary, at least in the initial stages, like Poland and Czechosolovakia was interested in the Marshall Plan. However, eventually due to Soviet pressure and direction, all of them rejected the aid. Hence, the Marshall Plan led to economic division in the Cold War as the Soviet came up with the Molotov Plan and then COMECON.
See Hungary in the Cold War: 1945 - 1956 by Laszlo Borhi, Central European University Press, 2004, pg 122 (found on eBooks NLB eResources) and http://www.osaarchivum.org/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/128-5-130.shtml retrieved 20 May 2011.
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