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).
Well, the americans proposed it to the Communist bloc. Poland and Czechoslovakia initially accepted it. But the USSR forced them to reject later.
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