sentences:  The plan was a system of bilateral trade agreements which also established Comecon to create an economic alliance of socialist countries.This aid allowed countries in Europe to stop relying on American aid and therefore allowed Molotov Plan states to reorganize their trade to the Soviet Union instead.The plan was in some ways contradictory because while the Soviets were giving aid to Eastern Bloc countries, at the same time they were demanding that countries who were members of the Axis powers pay reparations to the Soviet Union.