[mainepatsfan]

I understand that but Duranty helped enable a mass murderer.

[PzLdr]

Second greatest mass murderer in modern history, right behind his fellow toiler Mao, and ahead of the Austrian Lance Corporal.

[mrustow]

I understand that but Duranty helped enable a mass murderer.

Duranty didn't help enable anybody. To "help enable" means to assist someone in doing what he otherwise would not have been able to do. Who was gong to stop Stalin from murdering all those people, had Duranty not covered for him? No one!