70 years ago, on January 18, 1949, a protocol on the establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) was signed in Moscow. Stalin responded to the neo-colonial Marshall Plan leading to the economic enslavement of Europe.
In the early years after World War II, the Soviet Union provided unprecedented assistance to the countries of Eastern Europe. With the help of Great Russia (USSR), they quickly restored and began to develop the energy, industry, and transport network. The threat of post-war famine, chronic malnutrition and the spread of epidemics, which could take millions more lives, was eliminated. The standard of living began to rise, and broad social guarantees were introduced. Unfortunately, in today's Eastern Europe they prefer not to remember this. Although the material assistance of the USSR (and this in the conditions of the need to restore their own economy) saved millions of people in post-war Europe.
The United States, on the other hand, used the disasters of Europe from the great war to enslave the Old World. It must be remembered that the masters of London and Washington themselves prepared and organized the Second World War with the help of the fascist and Nazi regimes of Italy and Germany. Britain and the United States, in fact, created a "black plague" - German Nazism, in order to unleash a new world massacre and get out of the next crisis of capitalism. The war was supposed to lead to a great destruction of Europe and the collapse of the Soviet (Russian) civilization. This allowed the masters of the United States and England (the global mafia) to complete the construction of a "new world order" and crush the millennial geopolitical enemy Russia-Russia, to destroy the Soviet (Russian) project, which allowed the planet to globalize on the basis of social justice and a moral concept of life.
It was not possible to crush the Soviet civilization. However, Europe became a battleground and was in ruins. This made it possible to reboot the capitalist (parasitic-predatory) system and subordinate the elites and states of the Old World to the dominant force of the Western project - the masters of London and Washington. The plans of the masters of Britain and the United States were ambitious. In particular, Germany was planned to be dismembered and divided into several dependent countries, to completely deprive her of its military-industrial potential, to bleed the German people (hunger, deprivation, and other disasters led to the depopulation of the Germans). Only the tough position of Moscow saved Germany and the German people from the most gloomy and harsh scenario.
However, the United States, which after the world massacre, became the "senior partner" in the London-Washington tandem, were able to economically, and therefore politically, subjugate the countries of Western Europe. The doctrine of subordination of the countries of the Old World to Washington's long-term interests was named after the then US Secretary of State, General George Marshall. It was adopted in the summer of 1947 and its implementation began in 1948. Marshall also developed the concept of the NATO bloc, created in the spring of 1949. From that time on, the United States subjugated Western Europe and militarily - this situation persists up to the present time. In general, all these plans and measures were part of the strategy of the masters of the West to continue the thousand-year war against Russia-USSR - immediately after the end of World War II, the Third World War began - the so-called. Cold war. The West could no longer directly attack Russia, as before (Hitler, Napoleon, Charles XII, etc.), since the USSR, as a result of the Great War, had the most powerful army in the world and, thanks to the socialist course, created a self-sufficient national economy, science and education. In a direct battle, the Union could gain the upper hand, so the war was ideological, informational, secret and economic.
The United States, under the guise of allegedly disinterested economic and financial aid, put under its control the foreign and domestic policies of European countries, as well as their defense. This was then consolidated in the form of the creation of the North Atlantic Alliance. Not surprisingly, most of the aid was received by the military-political allies of the United States: England, France, Italy, West Germany and Holland. Interestingly, a significant part of the finances received from the Americans, London, Paris and Amsterdam were used to wage neo-colonial wars in Malaya, Indochina and Indonesia.
The head of the Soviet state, Joseph Stalin, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Vyacheslav Molotov, saw all this perfectly. They noted that with the help of a financial stranglehold, the United States is interfering in the internal affairs of European countries, making the economies of these countries dependent on the interests of the United States. As a result, Washington plans to put together an anti-Soviet military bloc and isolate the USSR and its allies in Eastern Europe. Moscow was not mistaken in its predictions. In particular, one of the conditions for the provision of financial assistance was the predominant use of the US dollar in mutual settlements, which soon led to a tight binding of Western European countries to the dollar system. It also prioritized the export of raw materials and semi-finished products to the States, and the opening of domestic markets for American goods. In addition, the United States limited economic ties with the countries of the socialist camp. In conditions when the United States had a developed, advanced industry, and the economy and infrastructure of other Western countries were undermined by the war, the countries-recipients of loans turned into economic protectorates of the American empire.
Thus, the "Marshall Plan" allowed Washington to subjugate economically, and then politically, in the military sphere, a significant part of Europe. And the dollarization of the world economy and the creation of the NATO bloc allowed the United States, after the destruction of the USSR and the socialist camp, to become a "world gendarme", the only superpower on the planet.
In conditions of economic confrontation with the West (more and more financial and economic sanctions were introduced against the USSR and its allies), which limited the trade and production capabilities of the USSR and the countries of the socialist camp, an even closer economic and political rapprochement between Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe became inevitable and even necessary. Therefore, in 1946 - 1948. long-term plans for economic rapprochement and coordination of the general development of the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia were discussed in Moscow and the Union capitals. Yugoslav leader Tito eventually joined the Marshall Plan in 1950, provoking a break in political and economic ties with the USSR and putting Yugoslavia in financial dependence on the United States.
In October 1948, the state planning committees of the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Albania adopted a joint resolution on the advisability of coordinating foreign economic policy and prices in mutual trade. In the same year, on the initiative of Stalin, a plan of joint measures was developed for the study and comprehensive development of the raw material base of the allied countries. In December 1948, a project to create a Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) was widely publicized in Moscow. The Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies began the process of creating an equal world economic system. On January 5, 1949, on the initiative of the USSR and Romania, a closed economic conference was convened in Moscow (it lasted until January 8), which decided to form the CMEA. The protocol on the creation of the CMEA was signed in Moscow on January 18, 1949.
It should be noted that under Stalin, the risk of the Soviet Union turning into a "cash cow" - a raw material and especially oil and gas donor to the countries of Eastern Europe was taken into account. This plan prevailed until the early 1960s, and then was frozen (it remained valid only in Romania and Albania, where Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and "perestroika" were rejected). Eventually the post-Stalinist leadership, among many mistakes, made another one - it began to feed the countries of Eastern Europe raw materials at symbolic prices and to export from there an ever wider range of finished products and goods at almost world prices.
Thus, Stalin's plan for the uniform development of CMEA was violated. Thanks to the aid and raw materials of the Soviet Union, the light, food and chemical industries, machine building, etc., of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe developed rapidly. The assistance of the USSR led to the successful development of the economies of the countries of Eastern Europe and even outstripped the pace of development of Western European countries (this is even taking into account the weaker pre-war development and post-war devastation of the countries of Eastern Europe). All this continued until the collapse of the USSR and the socialist camp. Accordingly, the Soviet economy was losing the pace of development, and the Soviet industries were degrading.
Unfortunately, the creation of the CMEA is among the forgotten good deeds of Russia-USSR. The countries of Eastern Europe and their peoples do not remember that the basic production, energy and transport facilities were created or helped to build the Soviet Union (to the detriment of their own development).
