Both encouraged the development of 'heavy industry', like iron, coal and other mining, shipbuilding, industrial machinery etc. Both men's efforts at economic development were in many ways disastrous and led to famines and massive numbers of dead.
Generally speaking, the non-communist nations of Western Europe were doing well in comparison to nations where Stalin had established communist governments in much of Eastern Europe. The free market policies of the West were yielding better economic growth then the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe. The US helped to jump start the economies of Western Europe through the Marshall Plan.
In their eyes communism was EVIL. (With Stalin that was true.) They felt they must help the European nations and African nations get repaired and restored to good strong economies so they could fend off the communists. There plans and ideas did help the Europeans.
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Stalin
The Marshall Plan helped the West recover faster. under pressure from stalin, eastern europe countries refused aid from the united states
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Eastern Nations were kept by Stalin and the USSR. They became the Eastern Bloc. They tried to get free of communism but it did not work. Yugoslavia was able to get free of USSR control. In the 1990s they were finally freed of USSR control and able to become self ruling nations with viable economies. Prior to the final end of the war many people did get out of those eastern nations and make it to the Allied Forces to get relocated to different nations.
FDR, US; Stalin, USSR; Churchill, UK.
Stalin demanded power in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
During but especially after World War II, Stalin sought to occupy and then control satellite nations in Europe, especially, for several reasons. The first was ideological: to spread the Communist revolution. The second was defensive in nature: Stalin sought to establish a buffer of sympathetic nations around the Soviet Union as protection against any further aggression by major powers in future wars.
Under pressure from Stalin, Eastern European countries refused aid from the United States.
satellite nations