Final answer:
Stalin revived the Communist International as the Cominform and through the Comecon, offered aid to Eastern Bloc countries, including sending grain to Czechoslovakia.
Step-by-step explanation:
In September 1947, Stalin revived the prewar Communist International as the Cominform, which in American propaganda was depicted as a shadowy conspiracy of evil. Its economic associate, Comecon, offered Russian aid to Eastern Bloc countries, such as sending grain to Czechoslovakia after a bad harvest. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) was an economic organization under the Soviet Union created to aid and foster economic relationships among socialist countries, providing some aid to its member nations despite the relative weakness of the Soviet economy.