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Wrapped in the Flag I wonder how David and Charles Koch--the fiercely libertarian, free-market rich boys- feel about Putin? After all, their father had no problem working for Joseph Stalin, dictator of the USSR. As Yasha Levine says: Here is a better historical fact, one that the Kochs don’t like to repeat in public: the family’s initial wealth was not created by the harsh, creative forces of unfettered capitalism, but by the grace of the centrally-planned economy of the Soviet Union. This deserves repeating: The Koch family, America’s biggest pushers of the free-market Tea Party revolution, would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the whim of one of Stalin’s comrades. Read the whole story at this link.exiledonline/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries-how-stalin-funded-the-tea-party-movement/
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:19:28 +0000

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