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In OTL Stalin felt that the Marshall plan would give the US control of his satelite's economies if accepted. As I understand it Truman and Marshall proposed it with the assumption that the Communists would say no.

WI Stalin, or a saner Soviet leader, had said 'yes'.

I suspect that it would have been tricky for Truman to get Marshall aid through Congress, and he might not have fought so hard for it.

I think that these events were before both the Berlin Blockade and the Czech coup.

Could the Cold War have been stopped?
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