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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 02:22 PM
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The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement (WHOA!!!!)

The Koch family, America's biggest financial backers of the Tea Party, would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the godless empire of the USSR.
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






http://www.alternet.org/story/146504/the_roots_of_stalin_in_the_tea_party_movement
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SocialistLez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 03:09 PM
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1. The Tea Party folks would not be happy
if they could read this article.

Maybe someone should read it to them?
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nealmhughes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 06:36 PM
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2. Stalin still had to deal with Trotsky and Zinoviev in the late 20s and really early 30s.
He only started becoming the Great Leader after he killed most of the Old Bolsheviks and the Red Army leaders in the mid-mid-30s. 34 he got wound up, by 36 it was fun times for all.

Trotsky bakes both Uncle Joe and Lenin for the Famine and collective farms over giant industrial products in 34 in exile; charging them with ignoring the material needs of the people, you know minor things such as food, for their fetish for largest iron works in Perm! and not allowing peasants to pay taxes in kind rather than the demand for rubles and apparachniks running collective farms who were guys from Petersburg or Moscow and did not know when rye was to be planted.
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 06:49 PM
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3. Oil again
Tea parties should be named oil parties then.
Koch parties might not come across the same way.
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Grand Taurean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 06:51 PM
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4. k/r
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 06:51 PM
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5. Santelli's "rant" > Koch Oil> tea baggers
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-17-10 11:36 PM
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6. The Cock family. Aren't they apply named.
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