The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement

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This is a 2010 article written by Yasha Levine for Alternet.com. In it, Levine describes how the foundation of the Koch family fortune was bankrolled by none other than Josef Stalin back in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Charles and David Koch would probably have ended up pumping gas for a living had it not been for the money and industry startup that grandpa Koch received from the Soviet Union after he and his company had been thwarted by post-WWI American energy cartels -- cartels very similar to today's Koch Industries. That's right -- the manufactured "Tea Party" was actually made possible by money and labor extracted from Stalin's countless victims 70 years ago.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/146504/the_roots_of_stalin_in_the_tea_party_movement?page=entire

The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement

by Yasha Levine
April 17, 2010 |

The Tea Party movement's dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin's godless empire of the USSR. The secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.

The comrades were good to the Kochs. Today Koch Industries has grown into the second-largest private company in America. With an annual revenue of $100 billion, the company was just $6.3 billion shy of first place in 2008. Ownership is kept strictly in the family, with the company being split roughly between brothers Charles and David Koch, who are worth about $20 billion apiece and are infamous as the largest sponsors of right-wing causes. They bankroll scores of free-market and libertarian think tanks, institutes and advocacy groups. Greenpeace estimates that the Koch family shelled out $25 million from 2005 to 2008 funding the "climate denial machine," which means they outspent Exxon Mobile three to one.

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In 1929, after hosting a delegation of Soviet planners in Wichita, Kansas, Winkler and Koch signed a $5 million contract to build 15 refineries in the Soviet Union. According to Oil of Russia, a Russian oil industry trade magazine, the deal made Winkler-Koch into Comrade Stalin's number-one refinery builder. It provided equipment and oversaw construction:

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The Soviet oil planners were delighted with Koch's refineries. The communists were so impressed they kept giving Winkler-Koch business and regularly sent Soviet engineers to train in Wichita. It was a sign of growing mutual trust...

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1. Stalinist Tendencies

I have run into personal criticism when when I commented, "That I understood why Stalin had purges". I hear that purge mentality from the right wing, GOP and tea baggers all the time. The real Stalinists rest in the bowels of the GOP. Remember when the GOP locked out Democrats when they controlled Congress. Their voter caging and voter fraud masks how dangerous the GOP really is. Loyal Republicans believe and support what Rep King said the other day. Hate radio spews its Stalinist code every day. Arresting reporters, beating reporters, attacking OWS et al with the silence of weak kneed Democrats is the mark of the GOP.

If the GOP wins we will see a dark age in this country like no other. No one really admits that we are in a political civil war that the GOP has declared by their actions. Gabby Giffords and the others who were shot was caused by the rhetoric of hate and eliminationism that we hear every single day 24/7. The GOP supports a rhetoric of destruction and even embraces it enthusiastically.

The attack on unions, the poor, the unemployed, etc are just another aspect of the GOP plan. This country will not survive with the GOP in power this next time. We have a cadre of billionaires that will commit treason to get their way and the GOP is their shill.