Koch Industries Fortune was Made in Stalin's Communist Russia. David Koch's twin-brother Bill Koch called Koch Industries "Organized Crime" on CBS TV on 60 Minutes segment about a whistle-blower lawsuit that compelled Koch Industries to pay $25000000. This is only a fraction of the quarter-billion (with a "B" billion) the Koch's have had to pay in fines and enforcement actions by the govt. No wonder Koch's Tea Party wants to take the Federal Cops off the beat and end environmental regulation of polluters! goo.gl koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com Where did the Koch Tea-Party Organized Crime fortune come from? Here you go... the 3 minute history lesson. In the late 1920s, there was at least one country in the world, where oil was not bought and sold in the usual sense Communist Russia. The Communists had been trying to take advantage, of their immense oil reserves, since gaining power in 1917, and under Joseph Stalin, the drive to industrial efficiency was pursued, with ruthless speed, but without the benefit of Western technology. Koch Industries founder, Fred Koch, offered to build oil refineries in Communist Russia, that would be more efficient than those in the West. The young engineer's ideas were welcomed, and he was awarded a large contract, to coincide with Stalin's first five-year plan, beginning in 1929. The contract called for construction of 15 refineries, for an initial fee of $5 million, from which Koch and his partner, LE Winkler, are said to have ...