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"New History", edited by I.M. Krivoguz, Moscow, "Enlightenment", 1989, pp. 54, 58: "John Rockefeller was the founder of the first trust. Having become rich on military supplies during the Civil War, Rockefeller established control over oil refineries and trade, and later took over oil production. He stopped at nothing – he used blackmail, bribery, deception, various methods of pressure, even to the point that he hired gangs of criminals to attack the possessions of his rivals. By the beginning of the First World War, his trust, Standard Oil Co., had become one of the largest oil companies on the globe. Rockefeller became known as "Mr. Billion." The other largest monopoly in the United States was the D. Morgan Trust – United Steel Corporation. His capital was almost one and a half billion dollars. Having absorbed one and a half hundred companies, this trust united mines, mines, metallurgical plants and railways, which employed 170 thousand workers. By 1904, 445 trusts controlled about three-quarters of all U.S. industrial production. The United States has become a country of trusts… The Rockefeller gang discovered considerable commercial dexterity by taking over the railways, canals and steamship lines that served to transport kerosene, thanks to which it was able to tax production at its discretion. Oil refining completed this predatory deal.

Having taken over production, the oil trust hastened to impose its yoke on retail trade. The company even had its own police to supervise retailers so that kerosene was sold at the appointed price…

The trust won the trials. He bribed judges and lawyers… There is nothing more characteristic than the answers given by the directors of Standard Oil Co. to the questions of the investigative commission …:

– Did you give money for the elections?

"We always subsidize the party that is the strongest in the area; in one state it is Republican, in another it is democratic …"

The United States, representing the largest population of the world oligarchy, is concerned about this turn of affairs, they seek to restore order in their own, of course, favor.