THREE LITTLE BROTHERS

A tiny street of Tetuan de las Victorias, three little brothers face the momentous decision to
eat an ounce of chocolate with your piece of bread, hard, or spend the cents in a comic. 
To purchase the new comic need seventy five cents and are unhappy with buy one and share the possession thereof. 
No, that's not an option, each must weigh the alternative of running out of breakfast, baguette and square of chocolate for a quarter, or invest the money her mother gave them for breakfast in a wonderful comic of "Warrior Mask" cartoon lasts forever ponder and baguette with chocolate we eat in an instant.
Finally bought two and spread over baguette and two ounces of chocolate between the three.
secret is all clear, his mother can not find out who skip breakfast and go to school happy with their comics and almost empty belly.

's life these young in a Spain misery feeds on dreams, heroes, and neighborhood theaters. 
Infant session in a cinema "Piper" cost a quarter to fifty cents and was a constant aspiration to them than their mother pay them a weekly task. 

Dreaming and living the adventures of his characters the graphics transcurria life without too much upheaval in an environment of apparent happiness, unreal, which to them was the best of all worlds.

Swords of wood, stones, files for playing "robaterrenos" in moist soil, the barter girls, and the "rope" mixed boys and girls.

poverty around him was manifested as small houses hovels without light or ventilation where whole families sometimes lived without running water or a toilet sharing between neighbors.
wondered These crios on by his mother and many of her neighbors seemed angry with frequency. Conducive to slap, or more, to their children when they got shot.
A the slightest, bang, slap and shut up. 

forgotten the next second slap returned to their world of illusion, fantasy and games rereading dozens of times same cartoons, exchanging their idols with buddies, or trying to catch a "fat bitch" (ten cents PTA) to change the comic less appreciated at the kiosk on the corner.

Sometimes instead of changing their precious treasure for a different the neighborhood crios could hire another graphic miracle to another senior colleague who possessed an assorted collection coveted by all.

exibian deployed on the ground when the ground was dry, made ​​with small shingle and subject to all the lads are made mouth water watching the stories of their heroes dream at your eyes.

dreamed No cakes or chicken, only "Carpanta" imagined their stories unattainable for chickens and all the guys all neighborhoods roasts.
Y pies?, they knew the pies?


Clueless, cakes, candies and cakes were not identified in Spain get hungry and seedy bars where bread was almost mission impossible by price and scarcity. objects

After World war shortages became really unbearable, Spain was isolated, locked as punishment for their support of Nazi losers. There was no international institution that is allowed, and the Marshall Plan of 1947 there came to the Spanish lands as a result of its support loser Regimen.

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 The Marshall Plan (officially called European Recovery Program or ERP ) was the plan most important United States for the reconstruction of countries Europe after the Second World War , which in turn was intended to contain a possible advance of communism . 

After six years of war, much of Europe was devastated and millions of people had died or were maimed. The fighting had occurred almost everywhere, covering a much larger area than was affected during the First World War . Because of the air raids, most of the cities were heavily damaged, especially industrial areas that had been the main targets of these bombings. Berlin and Warsaw were piles of rubble, and London and Rotterdam had been badly hit. The economic situation of the continent had come to nothing and millions of people were in poverty. Although the Dutch Hunger episode 1944 could be resolved, the general devastation of agriculture caused a wave of hunger in Europe, exacerbated by the harsh winter of 1946 - 1947 in northeastern Europe. They were also destroyed infrastructure such as the railroads , the bridges and roads , which had been the main target of aerial bombardment, and many ships had been sunk cargo. The smallest municipalities had not suffered the ravages of both war, but the lack of transport networks had left virtually isolated both physically and financially.


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The devastation from civil war in Spain joined famine European that hit exports in the years of war in Europe.
Once finished War these small exports came to an end, lacking equity hunger, loneliness, international isolation before a Fascist Dictatorial Regime in Spain was absolute and total. 
Nobody wanted to do it or traded with a plague that country had supported the Regime of Nazi Germany, and the poor survivors of a Spanish Civil War itself, trying to overcome the situation of the methods more


advantage all, nothing is pulled, the dustbins took days to fill, and when the "garbage truck" pulled by a mule passed through the streets without pavement scruffy boys or women flocked into the street to borrow bucket in hand for it to be emptied into the carriage. 

Plague summer bearable because few products had any chance of rot. Susceptible Any organic food to be eaten was gone in family stomachs and actually were very few things that can be thrown away.  
A small cart pulled by one or two mules was sufficient to meet the wastewater needs of many neighborhood streets.
The cars were provided by the so-called "scavengers" who were in charge of touring neighborhoods, with permission from the authority, and the waste pile called "scavengers" that proliferated by dozens on the outskirts of the capital's neighborhoods.


For boys and girls in the neighborhood there was nothing more fun than Amalia down the street and into the "trash" of the small area. There horganizaban bonfires and urinated on them, is rummaging in the garbage and always showed some curious and useless object, since the ragpickers had previously stockpiled rags, paper, or scrap that could report some pesetas.

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