Great idea that should have been extended to the USSR and the rest of what would become the Warsaw Pact countries, but wasn't of course because it was designed to undermine said bloc. I do think it's a successful model of the kind of thing that the US should ideally be doing abroad, but of course, so long as capitalism is the order of the day, it won't do anything like it again unless a viable ideological opponent emerges (ala the USSR).
It actually was. The offer was extended to every European country, including the Warsaw Pact nations and the USSR. In the case of Czechosvakia and Poland, they were forced to retreat by the Russians after they initially showed interest in joining the Marshall Plan. Yugoslavia joined the Marshall Plan after Tito broke with the USSR, and received help just as any other country, despite being communist.
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