Strange quote from Solzhenitsyn (Capitalist- Communist alliance)

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FAMED RUSSIAN REFUGEE DESCRIBES THE ALLIANCE
On June 30, 1975, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the famed Russian author, lecturer, historian, intellectual, and recipient of a Nobel Prize, gave one of the most important addresses delivered in this country during the Twentieth Century. To a select and packed audience in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, Solzhenitsyn advised his listeners of the existence of an amazing and mysterious alliance, "at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your Capitalists." Solzhenitsyn explained that the alliance of which he spoke was not new. He said the great Capitalists of the United States assisted Lenin "in the first years of the Revolution," and that since then "we observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders." (Congressional Record, 8, July, 1975, pp. 11951-11956).


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1. Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum helped Lenin build a pencil factory.

"Indeed, expansion was swift. Hammer persuaded automaker Henry Ford to move into the Soviet Union to develop the "Fordson" tractor. Hammer's pencil factory was given a Soviet monopoly. There were sweetheart deals involving fur, oil and czarist art. Hammer never deceived the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, however, who in 1919 began creating a massive file, "61-280 - Armand Hammer, Internal Security - Russia," scrawling across the front, "a rotten bunch." Hoover knew that Hammer financed Comintern agents but did not move, knowing that "it is often more profitable not to arrest a detected courier" when there is no assurance that the replacement will be detected."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n43_v12/ai_18850075

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2. Thanks for that information. It corroborates the OP