Soviet Cartoons on the Marshall Plan

"Gozba" [Feast], June 19, 1948.  George Marshall is portrayed as the American cowboy, serving drinks to European officials. The whole message is ‘illuminated’ by the text: ‘Be brave! We give you Marshall Plan help in drops!’ 

"How Animals Live," Soviet newspaper, 1948.  Some pigs, representing European countries, are gathering sticks for a fire while others (below) are carving a log pole labeled "Marshall Plan" for the spit. 

Paul Hoffman, head of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), addressed the representatives of the countries involved in the Marshall Plan, Hoffman suggested creating a united western European market based on elimination of customs barriers and tariffs. n this cartoon from the Soviet paper Izvestiya, Hoffman, shown as a stereotypical fat capitalist, attacks the sovereignty as well as the tariff barriers of Marshall Plan countries with a “club of dollars.”