Stalin set up the CommunistInformationBureau to unitecommuniststates in Europe.
This will tighten Soviet’s control over satellite states
SatelliteStates expected to implement Soviet-style communism and trade mainly with each other
Contact with non-communist countries discouraged
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Also known as Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (or just remember it was COMmunistECONomy)
This united the economies of Eastern Europe with the Soviet Union. Meant to be their version of the Marshall Plan where the USSR would provide investment and share technological knowledge with the Eastern European states.
However, USSR’s post-war economicrecovery was slow and they could not provide economic aid of similar scale as the Marshall Plan.