Why was Josef Stalin so concerned about the Marshall Plan?

Question

a) He worried that small countries he coveted, like Czechoslovakia, might join the Marshall Plan’s Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC).
b) He was angry that the Soviet Union was too impoverished by the war to make a similar gesture.
Consider This: Stalin’s last major expansion in 1948 marked the final rupture between communist and capitalist Europe. See 14.2.2: Completing the Split.
c) He was already planning to begin the Third World War.
Consider This: Stalin’s last major expansion in 1948 marked the final rupture between communist and capitalist Europe. See 14.2.2: Completing the Split.
d) He was deeply insulted by Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech.
Consider This: Stalin’s last major expansion in 1948 marked the final rupture between communist and capitalist Europe. See 14.2.2: Completing the Split.

Answer 1

a) He worried that small countries he coveted, like Czechoslovakia, might join the Marshall Plan’s Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC).