The elephant is. The party is also colloquially known as the "GOP",
for "Grand Old Party".
While the Marshall Plan was, in part, created to stop the spread of communism, the Molotov Plan was there to encourage it. Money from the Soviet Union could be used to prop up nascent communist states in a similar way that the money from the Marshall Plan was attempting to rebuild western-style democracies.
The Shia Islamic sect belives that Ali is the true successor of the prophet Mohammed
Jim Crow Laws is the answer.
