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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: Request to capture our sources of energy. It's the story
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  Speaker 1: of our times. You open up the newspaper today, it's
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  Speaker 1: on every page. This is the original war, the original
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  Speaker 1: oil war. As you mentioned, Alfred Nobel was an investor
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  Speaker 1: in this company, but it was run by his nephew,
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Nobel. He was the largest oil titan in the world.
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  Speaker 1: By the time World War One broke out, Emmanuel Nobel
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  Speaker 1: had the largest oil concern in the world, larger than
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  Speaker 1: Rockefeller's standard oil. He had bought land in southern Russia
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  Speaker 1: along the Caspian Sea and Baku modern day Azerbaijan, and
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  Speaker 1: by the start of the war he controlled more than
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  Speaker 1: half of Russia's oil. And what Stalin did you know?
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  Speaker 1: As World War One is ongoing, Russia has the Bolshevik Revolution,
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  Speaker 1: they pulled out of the war. What Stalin, Lennon and
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  Speaker 1: the Communists did to Emmanuel Nobel was the inspiration for
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  Speaker 1: George Orwell's nineteen eighty four. You know, there's the scene
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  Speaker 1: in that book where they say they renamed the streets,
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  Speaker 1: they tore down the statues, they rewrote the history. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Stalin took it all over and Bell Brothers Petroleum Company
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  Speaker 1: became the Soviet Petroleum Company, his munitions and engine factor
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  Speaker 1: in the north by Saint Petersburg became Rusky Diesel, and
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  Speaker 1: the history of Emmanuel Nobel, the largest industrialist in the
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  Speaker 1: world at the time, was completely paved over and repainted
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  Speaker 1: by Stin