That's right, his name was
Walter Durante --
A few will recognize the name of Walter Durante, the New York Times reporter assigned to Soviet Russia in the 1930s to 1950s, who portrayed the bloodthirsty dictator Joseph Stalin as "Uncle Joe" and claimed that everything was better in the Soviet Union. Malcolm Muggeridge and other reporters from other countries were horrified at Durante’s falsified reports of bounty in Soviet Russia at a time when millions were being killed by the Communist tyrants and six million Ukrainians were purposely being starved to death. Durante was eventually exposed, but not before his support for the Communist Soviet system had brought the aid that was needed to keep the evil empire alive for many more years than would have been the case if the truth had been known.
There is hardly a communist dictatorship on earth that has not been sanitized in the "news" by some NYT "correspondent."