Live long and see, this film reveals another side of the Marshall Plan

Anyone familiar with history knows that the United States implemented the Marshall Plan for Europe after the end of World War II. The essence of the Marshall Plan was to restore the economies of the European countries to restore the economic and industrial standards of these countries to the pre-war state. The Marshall Plan played a vital role in the formation of a European community after the war, and this gradually coalesced Europe to achieve the strategic objectives of the United States.

However, the same European Spain in the Marshall Plan was similarly excluded from the treatment, even though the United States later also aid to Spain, but the aid from the United States was mostly used to improve Spain's agricultural production, but for Spain's industrial recovery, the United States is very stingy, compared to a large amount of aid from the five European countries, Spain did not get anything. Therefore, based on this, some Spaniards made a film to satirize the American aid, and this film is "Welcome to Marshall".

The comedy film "Marshall Welcomes You" is about a small town in a remote area of Spain, Rio, where the inhabitants of the town live in poverty, yet one day they learn the news that the Americans are going to give equal Marshall Plan aid to Spain, so the people of the town have dreams. Dreaming that they could realize their dreams in the original American, dreaming that the Americans could throw money around the town in a big way. Thus, a ludicrous farce was staged. The result, however, was a great loss for the residents of the small town of Rio.

What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? Naturally, it was to re-establish the industrial system in Europe that was destroyed during World War II. To this end, the United States spent a lot of money to rearm Europe, and therefore, the U.S. Congress passed the Marshall Plan. What is the purpose of arming Europe? During the Cold War, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union were playing against each other, Europe could act as a pawn for the U.S. The Soviets' coveting of Europe could make the U.S. gain strategic buffer time, which was very important for the Cold War game.

However, Europe as a strategic buffer zone is also very competitive, in the sixties, Europe basically achieved industrial rebirth, and even once triggered post-war overproduction again. Europe was completely rejuvenated, and the role of acting as an outpost of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was fully realized.

We understand the Marshall Plan, and we can understand where the laughs of the film "Marshall Welcome", the essence of the Marshall Plan is to arm Europe to act as a strategic buffer zone, therefore, the geographical location is very important, and look at the geographical location of Spain, located on the edge of Western Europe, Spain in the era of great navigation can still be invincible fleet to gain a sense of presence, however, when the global geopolitical plate formed, Spain The strategic position of Spain was gradually reduced.

The strategic center of gravity in Europe was concentrated in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and other Central European countries, while for Spain, the strategic position in the Cold War was already in the status of chicken ribs, even the United States later to pull Franco's government and strategic assistance to Spain, but only to maintain Spain not to fall into the Soviet camp, as for Spain to complete the industrialization of the construction, this is naturally not in the interests of the United States. This naturally would not be in the interest of the United States. Therefore, this expectation will naturally fail.

The small town of Rio in this film, to welcome the arrival of the Americans, spent a lot of money to carry out the unprecedented face of the project, but the end is very sad, everyone's expectations of the dream finally fell short, and this expectation of failure of the sense of loss was naturally transferred to the Americans, and so, this film was born.

It is doubtful that greed is a human attribute, but the Spaniards were certainly willing to receive assistance after the war. As a small town wrapped in poverty for a long time, the Americans became a hope, a dream, a dream that originated from the residents of the small Spanish town for the abstract American expectations, yet the reality of the Americans is alive and well. The concrete Americans are sensible, the abstract Americans are omnipotent, while the omnipotent Americans can only live in their dreams, which is awkward.

Their way or their way, the European countries gradually formed the European Community after receiving assistance from the United States, which eventually evolved into the European Union. To this day, although the EU is eager to break away from the control of the United States, and desperately wants to obtain an independent and autonomous status, however, the U.S. soldiers who came with the Marshall Plan do not plan to leave Europe completely, therefore, today's Europe can only become a vassal of the United States, not only in the strategic sense but also economic and military and diplomatic vassal.

The European countries are still struggling in this game, however, this is a good thing for Spain, because Spain is one of the few countries without a U.S. military presence, and Spain has gained the integrity of its national sovereignty, although it does not receive substantial U.S. aid. And although the European countries received direct assistance from the U.S. Marshall Plan, yet they still have not been able to obtain complete national sovereignty, which is perhaps Spain's reward.

The Marshall Plan brought industrialization to the European countries, but it brought a dream to the Spanish town of Rio that would wake up at any moment. Dreams can always wake up, but sovereignty can last forever.