Posted on 01/26/2021 9:28:19 PM PST by lowbridge
This is a great movie. Its depiction of scumbag leftist Walter Duranty is absolutely brutal.
The Ukrainian people haven’t forgotten this either.
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bmp
Good movie. Walter Duranty should have at least lost his Pulitzers, if not worse.
I hate the NYT to my bones
Agreed. If the NY Slimes were to print that the sun rises in the east, I would still feel the need to check every morning before I'd believe anything in that rag.
Mark
The commissar of the Ukraine was Nikita Khrushchev.
Probably best followed by “The Death of Stalin” movie
opps that’s a horror movie by the same title
If you like reading footnotes, try these.
Robert Conquest books:
The Harvest of Sorrow — Details the starving of Ukraine
The Great Terror - A Reassessment — Covers Stalin’s purge
“Walter Duranty the Godfather of fake news. The Times later employed Herb Matthews another communist sympathizer who ran cover for Fidel.”
While I won’t disagree that Duranty was a scumbag who deserved to have his awards revoked instead of kept on (and the NYT wasted a very good opportunity to do so when it came), he unfortunately wasn’t the Godfather of fake news. That title is reserved strictly for Walter Lippmann, who wrote Public Opinion and thus literally wrote the entire concept out for everyone to follow. And that’s just going by America. You could argue the French Philosophes were the true godfathers of fake news with how they ended up hijacking France’s Education System and spewing lies via their Encyclopedie to gin up a lynching against Christians via the Jacobins.
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