Yes. Julius and Armand Hammer, who the Soviets assigned to attract US investors, persuaded Henry Ford to set up Ford operations in Russia starting in 1919, and by the late 30s Ford was doing multi-million-dollar business there (this is mentioned in Edward Jay Epstein's biography of Hammer). I believe Ford stepped up production in the Eastern bloc in the 60s following Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1965 recommendation to ease US-Soviet trade restrictions, though I'm not sure on the specifics about that--would need to look that up.
Hitler could never hold a candle to perhaps the most horrible man ever to lead a country, Joseph Stalin.
The USA sent him money and arms like crazy.
Maybe some people had disagreements over who was the lesser of two evils.
My Grandfather made paintings when he was in a concentration camp and my great grandpa had his skull crushed by a rifle butt on a forced march into Germany. Many of my relatives in Holland were killed/imprisoned for being in the resistance and also starved due to allied bombings.
My family has never seen any reparations from anyone and they are willing to forgive.
It is not time to put those black years of WWI and WWII behind us?
Thanks, while your digging, could you find the pay-off between ALGOE Senior, and Armand? It was Armand that made the ALGORE very rich.
Armand Hammer has ties to the Gore family. Lots of info on this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Armand+Hammer%22%2BGore&btnG=Google+Search
>>>Julius and Armand Hammer, who the Soviets assigned to attract US investors, persuaded Henry Ford to set up Ford operations in Russia starting in 1919, and by the late 30s Ford was doing multi-million-dollar business there (this is mentioned in Edward Jay Epstein's biography of Hammer).
Now I've recently been seeing that Gore had something to do with Hammer.