The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. The brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C.
The Soviet Union made up for a third of the casualties(deaths) so the U.S. offered the Marshall Plan to the Soviets but they refused to have help because they believed it was a plan to sabotage them and there satellite plan. As we know of this was not what the U.S. intended but the Soviet Union believed that which could be why they didn’t trust American and why this created tension.
Mandela means that someone who decides to take someone else's freedom is prjudiced and narrowminded. He can not be free if he takes away someone else's freedom just as a person who does not have freedom.
A person who takes away someone else's freedom is not free.