About the Marshall Plan

You see, I heard this nonsense about the Marshall Plan and the like when they were breaking up the USSR, inspiring Georgia, ruining Ukraine.

I have already written about this, but the topic seems to be eternal. The enthusiasts just can’t calm down — they continue to pester, and I can’t find the strength to pass by.

And I continue to watch how historians, who were not specifically interested in the issue, continue to pedal it, forgetting to warn that they are presenting kitchen theses, stemming from somewhat naive political views, and in no way connected with their professional activities.

The issue does not rest specifically on the Marshall Plan, it is somewhat broader. There is a false belief that if a country opens its bosom to the States, it is immediately rewarded: with material aid, investments, democratic institutions and so on, after which welcome to a world without borders, large pensions and the realization of the most unbridled fantasies.

Anyone who seriously intends to destroy their country to the ground so that the Americans or someone else can build something better in its place lives by the myth of the 70-80s about the shining City-on-a-hill, emitting rays of goodness towards those who are ready to move to a new aggregate state — a more perfect one.

When something similar is foisted off by some white brothers, coaches, hereditary magicians and other degenerates, the consequences are sometimes unpleasant, but not catastrophic. But with the City-on-a-hill, which is a burp of propaganda and agitation from the Cold War, everything is much sadder.

No one explains to the unafraid that the time of upheaval is not only about planes with humanitarian aid in the form of expired chicken legs and the like. In every society there is a percentage of bastards — hyperactive and ruthless, whom the state can somehow restrain, and they somehow mimic, try not to show off, but in the case of political seismic activity, they throw off their masks.

There is also approximately the same percentage of its own idiots, not to mention foreign ones, who try to find something good in cannibals, and assure that the bastard who has found a great goal — the construction of a civilized society in place of the totalitarian Moloch — is civilizing himself, growing above himself and even somehow becoming enlightened.

Sorry for the long introduction, but I will try to be as brief as possible about the essence of the matter, that it was not the Marshall Plan and similar plans that helped Germany, South Korea, etc. to get back on their feet after the war.

Germany. The most advanced country in Eurasia in terms of engineering, production organization, the ability to mobilize almost instantly for anything, both good and bad. What role did the Marshall Plan play in its post-war recovery? Almost none.

I quote those who are really in the know, you can check the figures yourself: “When calculating the financial contribution of the Marshall Plan to the economies of recipient countries, it turns out that aid accounted for only about 3% of the total national income of recipient countries in the period from 1948 to 1951, which means an increase in GDP growth in these countries by less than half a percent.” Half a percent is in general, but since most of the aid went to the British, the effect on Germany was not much different from zero. In addition, they took more in reparations than they gave.

South Korea. An even more interesting example. A country that never had its own economy in the foreseeable past. The Americans really did help it after the war. But about 100 percent of the aid was stolen in a year, two, ten, twenty. By the early 70s, the economies of North and South Korea were neck and neck.

That was until an idealistic tyrant came to power, or maybe he just had a hobby — helping his country get out of absolute poverty. And then the phenomenal discipline, hard work and honesty of the majority of Koreans finally turned this feudal state in the right direction. This is not exactly about democracy, but it worked.

What was the real help the States gave to these countries, as well as Japan, etc.? They were not interfered with. For example, they were not interfered with selling their goods in America and the like. This is valuable, this is not a small thing. In the 80s, the Americans decided to slightly strangle Japan so that it would not compete too much, and get some of the diamonds from the sky, just if a cow licked them off with its tongue. But this is not the point, the main thing is that if you yourself, with your own hands, do not create industry, do not solve the issues of food security, do not curb corruption, do not personally create the aforementioned institutions — with national specifics, of course, then you will be Liberia and Haiti, and not Germany or a second France.

Foreign countries will not help. Welcome to the adult world, where everyone by and large gets a big and a small share for everyone.