In relation to the Marshall plan it is a bit much to attribute sinister motivations for the aid. At it's simplest it was a way of helping get Europe back on it's feet after the devastation and dislocation of war and secondly it was in America's interest to prevent any possible slide to communism which the chaos and confusion of the the post war situation might allow. It was also in Europe's interest not to fall into communism. Who can deny that?
In truth America came out of the war richer than before it started and not materially damaged. It was not in their interest to allow Europe to fester. On the contrary the economic well being of America depended on the rest of the world having plenty of free market economies to trade with. That is still true.
Boroda in his natural tendency to favour his own country has allowed this to cloud his judgement.
Yes, it was OUR decision to be a target for planned agression since 1946. It was our plan to arm instead of reconstructing what was left of European USSR. It was our decision to have B-52s armed with H-bombs on combat patrol over Europe 24/7. Did you understand what you wrote?... Confrontation in Europe was deliberately grown by the Western "allies". Check historical calendars. We only answered on your hostile moves towards your twisted version of "democracy". And we definetly didn't want to pay another price for your "assistance" - we had enough expenses since 1941.
That if I may say sounds like a piece of pure Soviet propaganda.
Notwithstanding genuine fears of western aggression in the Soviet Union stoked at least in part by the party appartus because it suited them. Like Al Qaeda and Arab governments today who use the same method to deflect people from thinking about just who keeps them in ignorance and poverty.
People in the Soviet Union were never in any danger from the west except perhaps the risk that they free them from the tyranny they lived under. Even you Boroda cannot deny that. Only now in recent years do you have the beginnings of the freedom and prosperity, flawed though it is, that we in the west take for granted. The Soviet Union and communism in general had nothing to offer in that regard. If you don't believe that ask anyone who lived in Hungary, Czechslovakia, Poland etc etc.
Comparsions to`1941 were not valid. The Nazis were a threat to everyone. Fear of German resurgence was common in Russia then and even now. It may surprise some Americans to konw that in Europe fear of Germany is often more prevalent than fear of a Communist Russia. So much so that at re-unification the German chancellor felt moved to state that they wanted a European Germany not a German Europe.
Our 'twisted' verson of democracy worked a lot better than your one party non democracy and the lack of freedom to criticise your leaders or even leave the country. The biggest threat from America and the west was to the cosy little world of the party faithful who milked the system to their own benefit while keeping the workers in their place.
