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Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/marshall_01.shtml
TIL the UK was the number 1 European recipient of aid from the Marshall Plan, receiving $2.7 billion
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The UK lost the post-war to everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_loan
> Historian Alan Sked has commented that, “the U.S. didn’t seem to realize that Britain was bankrupt”
Eventually the UK was not able to invest in its economy, unlike competitors such as Germany.
Which they recently paid off.
[Distribution per country ](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1227834/distribution-marshall-plan-by-country/)
So typically American
Bailing out whoever didn’t get invaded