SUMMARY: Even though Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1932, he will be remembered most for what he did not report: the Ukraine famine. In "Stalin's Apologist," biographer S. J. Taylor explains how Duranty's need to succeed and his taste for high living led him to disregard the deaths of millions.
Communism seems to cause famines
North Korea is apparently having another right now.
Mark
New York Times remains as an apologist for Communist tyrants to this day.
Remember Hebert Matthews
A beaming Fidel Castro said decorating Herbert Matthews during a visit to the New York Times offices in April 1959
“To our American friend Herbert Matthews with Gratitude. Without your help and without the help of the New York Times, the Revolution in Cuba would never have been.”
My Fathers Mother lived through that.
——Stalin wanted purity, ——
So do Obama, Pelosi, Dingy Harry.
They are all mortal American enemies, just like Stalin was to the Ukraine
Visualize the executive order granting the fubar-in-chief full authority over food supplies and the means of production.
Roosevelt: he had a love affair with the Soviets during the 30s.
Most of Russia's land had been held by aristocrats in vast estates worked by serfs, who were only freed in the mid-19th Century. It was fairly easy for the Communists to reassemble estates into communes. In contrast, Eastern Ukraine had been part of Lithuania and later Poland for centuries. Russia only acquired Eastern Ukraine in the Partitions of Poland late in the 18th Century. That history produced a land ownership pattern of small holdings by independent farmers. The farmers were understandably reluctant to let the Communists steal their land and assemble communes. So, what this was really about was using famine to break the will of the Ukrainians to end any opposition to the Communists extending their program of communal farming under tight Party control. And they killed millions doing it.