Posted on 11/14/2009 8:02:15 AM PST by blackminorca
The 1930s diaries of a Welsh investigative reporter who exposed Stalin's "terror famine" in Soviet Ukraine are to go on public display for the first time. Gareth Jones, who was an aide to David Lloyd George, risked his life to travel into Ukraine via Moscow to verify the reports of a famine. The Holodomor saw millions of Ukrainians starve to death as a result of economic and trade policies instituted by Stalin. Mr Jones' diaries cover the period from 1932-33. Despite his stories appearing in newspapers across the western world, revealing the plight of Ukrainian peasants starving to death, he was discredited by other journalists and banned from the USSR. But his grand-nephew, Nigel Linsan Colley, said Mr Jones had believed in exposing the truth of what was happening to the Ukrainian people. Two years later, while working in China, Mr Jones was murdered. He was 29. His diaries had remained largely forgotten in the house of his older sister and were not uncovered until she died in the 1990s. Mr Jones' diaries are now on display in Trinity College, Cambridge.
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http://garethjones.org/
Yeah - then he said you have to break eggs to make omelettes.
Question: Where is the omelette?
Obama, Where is the omelette?
Stalin cared very little for the Russian people. My Grandparents spent their lives in Gulags where my grandmother witnessed the deaths of her 3 youngest children within the first week. Ask any russian person, we all have stories like this.
IIRC one Nikita Kruschev was the guy in charge of the Ukraine at that time.
Sure, Stalin and Lenin and Trotsky and Putin have killed lots of people.
But this about the genocide of an entire country - and it was the Russians that benefited from the stolen grain.
That just passed Farm Bill and the current ban on water to California Farmers seems awfully familiar.
I’m so sorry to hear that. :( I wish someone would record all of the stories of suffering under Communism the way Spielberg did with ‘Tales of the Shoah’.
Trust me, the Russians who benefitted were not the people. They had no problem starving their own. All of the people, in all of the soviet countries suffered. This includes those in Russia. The food more than likely, went to the military, not the people.
I tape recorded my Grandmother’s stories, just so that I can show my children how lucky they are to be in America. I hope I can still say that 5 years from now.
I hope I can still say that 5 years from now.
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I know what you mean. *sigh*
But I thought Stalin was the savior of europe... Oh must have missed the whole 20 million people dead thing...
Hitler’s Nazis get all the glory when it comes to comparing some evil movement to history, but it’s the Communists who have killed many times the number of THEIR OWN CITIZENS that the Germans of the thirties and forties killed.
Our media suppresses this, always. Are they leftist? Obviously.
It’s been done. “The Soviet Story” by Edwins Snore. I sent off for the DVD to keep for my children and grandchild. The pictures are all there and the whole story is told. A good documentary.
Amazon doesn't carry it I don't think.
Thanks for posting that. I’ll definitely check it out!!!!
Even worse, when the Nazis invaded the Ukraine, they were greeted as liberators; that wore off when their retaliations for attacks behind the lines became unbearable. After the wall came down, the Soviets admitted that they sent Russians behind the lines to create that problem (with the desired effect). When my children ask who were “the good guys” in the war in Europe, I tell them there is no “good guy” when 2 devils fight...
“there is no “good guy” when 2 devils fight...”
How right you are!
“All of the people, in all of the soviet countries suffered.”
Not true - the borders were slammed shut with Russia and all the food was taken out - this included parts of the Caucuses where Ukrainians were exiled by Russia generations prior.
http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/famine_map.html
Look, it’s a really stupid arguement, EVERYONE suffered under communism. There were some Ukranians that suffered more than others. there were some Poles that suffered more than others. There are some Russians that suffered more than others. My point is that EVERYONE suffered. It is silly to try and figure out the levels of suffering, it makes no sense, and weakens the argument. EVERYONE suffered. This ridiculous one-upsmanship (with regards to levels of suffering) cheapens the suffering that all the people under communism endured. Its time to stop.
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