Opinion of the Marshall Plan

[Antonio the Sixth]

One of the best things to ever happen to Europe.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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).

The USSR took care of itself by pillaging Eastern Europe though. 

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.

They did extend it to the USSR lol, the USSR rejected it.

do the kids still say "pwnd"?

Wow, I can't believe TNF genuinely didn't know that. I thought it was common knowledge.

[Antonio the Sixth]

but in fact it imposed unregulated capitalism on Europe when it least needed it.

Yeah, I forgot about the great wave of economic deregulation and welfare cuts that swept across Europe in the post-WW2 era.