Walter Muggeridge
Malcom Muggeridge
Malcom Muggeridge was an english writer and journalist, who sent reports on the famine to Manchester Guardian.
After world war II he became a close personal friend of George Orwell.
Just as Orwell, Muggeridge was a leftist, disillusioned by communism.
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Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones
Garteh Jones was a Welsh journalist who travelled to Russia and Ukraine in the spring 1933.
He reported on the famine in several newspapers including Manchester Guardian and New York Evening Post.
Garteh Jones was murdered in Mongolia in 1935. His murder probably engineered by the Soviet NKVD.
From one of his Holodomor reports:
“I walked along through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was the cry, ‘There is no bread. We are dying. This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus and Central Asia. I tramped through the black earth region because that was once the richest farmland in Russia and because the correspondents have been forbidden to go there to see for themselves what is happening.
I stayed overnight in a village where there used to be two hundred oxen and where there now are six. The peasants were eating the cattle fodder and had only a month’s supply left. They told me that many had already died of hunger. Two soldiers came to arrest a thief. They warned me against travel by night, as there were too many ‘starving’ desperate men.
‘We are waiting for death’ was my welcome, but see, we still, have our cattle fodder. Go farther south. There they have nothing. Many houses are empty of people already dead,’ they cried.”
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Walter Duranty
The villain, a liar who won the Pulitzer prize.
Walter Duranty was an english-born jewish journalist who, in his articles in New York Times 1932–33, repeatedly denied the existence of an Ukrainian famine.
Later on he favorable portrayed Stalin and his show-trials in the end of the 1930:s.
Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of stories written in 1931 on the Soviet Union.
Several times critics have tried to move to posthumously and symbolically strip him of his Pulitzer award. Duranty’s reports have been inquiried to be unbalanced and uncritical, and often gave voice to Stalinist propaganda.
Mark von Hagen, professor of Russian history stated, “For the sake of The New York Times’ honor, they should take the prize away.” But the Admin of the board, Sig Gissler, refuses to rescind the award.
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