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Page 1 of 1Giovanni Agnelli
August 13, 1866 - December 16, 1945
Nationality: Italian
Category: Designer
Subcategory: Italian Designer
|  In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. | | And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. | | The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. | | I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. | | Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. |
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