It's time for the US to go home – Nya Dagbladet

In 1945, the United States, along with the Soviet Union, emerged as the clear victors in the world war that had left large parts of Europe in ruins. Through the so-called Marshall Plan, the Americans would pump in billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Western Bloc Europe. With the money came demands to open the US market to the Coca-Cola Company and a swarm of American corporate giants. The new consumer culture would quickly come to be p…