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"Do you remember our oil strike, and what we read about it in the papers? Suppose you had never been to Paradise, and didn’t know the strikers, but had got all your impressions from the Angel City newspapers! Well, that’s the way it seems to me about Russia; this is the biggest strike in history, and the strikers have won, and seized the oil wells."

"Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law." - Oil!, Upton Sinclair

Absolutely incredible and necessary. This book will shatter your perceptions of post-WWII America and make you question why things are the way they are today. Did we do enough to denazify? Absolutely not. Did we even care? Read this book.

Prosecutor (East Germany): “Oh, you’re finally talking about Nazis? Why did it take you so long? All those scientists you brought over…”

American General: “Well, East Germany had plenty of Nazis of its own. What did it do with all of them?”

Prosecutor: “We shot them.”

“It was apparent that Cuba’s startling economic windfall was not being used to meet the needs of the people but rather to pad the private bank accounts and pocketbooks of a powerful group of corrupt politicians and American ‘investors.’”

-"Havana Nocturne" by T. J. English

"A divided left failed to resist the fascist takeover". Definitely something to take into mind for the future political revolution.

Such a great book!