they dictated
-ont dicté
Past they conjugation of dictate.

dictate

The Marshall Plan indeed existed, the Americans gave us the money, but as they did so, they demanded that the European governments drove the communists out of politics in their countries; they dictated the conditions to us.
Le plan Marshall a bel et bien existé : les Américains nous ont donné de l'argent, mais à la condition que les gouvernements européens chassent les communistes de la scène politique de leur pays.
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