His father ( and co-founder of Koch Industries ) , Fred C. Koch , had spent time developing petroleum cracking units in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin 's regime between 1929 and 1932 , and came back with a deep disdain for the communist regime 's totalitarianism . He described the nation as " a land of hunger , misery , and terror , " and later , lamented the fact that many of the engineers he had worked with there had been purged by Stalin 's regime , along with a great many other " intellectuals "
purged by Stalin 's regime
Great Purge
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