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Stalin Worked in Nobel Oil Fields Before Leading Bolshevik Revolution
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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
"Stalin as a youth worked in the oil fields for Nobel. And the other big oil concern was the Rothschild family. The French branch of the Rothschilds were a big oil operator in southern Russia. They eventually sold out because Nobel was far bigger and too big a competitor even for the Rothschilds. But Stalin worked in those fields for the Rothschilds and Nobels."
Author Douglas Brunt revealed that Joseph Stalin worked in oil fields owned by the Nobel family and Rothschilds in southern Russia before rising to power. This experience gave Stalin direct knowledge of the oil industry's strategic importance, which influenced his later demands to Lenin to seize the oil reserves during the Bolshevik Revolution. The revelation connects Stalin's youth to the industrial empire he would eventually destroy.
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