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Technically, the money was available to all European nations
However, there were strings attached - it was a capitalist injection of money and needed to allow the Americans to check that the money was being spent in the agreed manner.
Stalin ordered East European Nations to decline the offer.
Molotov called it ‘Dollar Imperialism’
Czechoslovakia tried to take part but was prevented from doing so and its government overthrown by the Communists in 1948