[secretagent]

Quite the stinger in the last line.

[DoughtyOne]

In all sincerity, my God, this is terrible. I wasn't even aware of it. How could this guy state that it was only Russians and a few eggs need to be broken. Geez Louise, the press is capable of rationalizing anything away aren't they.

[Savage Beast]

"the Holodomor slipped down the memory hole"

And if history and the recording of truth relied upon the American "mainstream newsmedia", a helluva lot more than that would "slip" down the memory hole!

"Doesn't that tarnish the other 88?"

Yes, of course, but that's far from the only thing.

And so much for that "newspaper of record" schtik.

Truth itself is the only "newspaper of record"!

[Just mythoughts]

Only our Heavenly Father knows the exact number of individuals slaughter to that religion of communism.

The liberal/socialist/communistic party know as the Democrat party never points to the evil of that religion.

Stalin was the face of evil of modern times and he had a couple of students, Hitler and Saddam among others who claim secular government religion in their world wide attempt to wipe out Christianity.

Maybe some will start asking themselves was McCarthy onto something and how sick and twisted yet today so many are who think the worst thing that to call someone is McCarthy or to cry McCarthyism.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have the same mind as Stalin as well as their supporters and the thing that stopped them from destroying conservatives from Stalin like destruction is our constitution that they spend 24/7 trying to destroy.

[liberalnot]

only a month or so ago, the new york times had a full page list of pulitzers that they'd won.

duranty's name was near the top.

[Blue Scourge]

I must say, it is indeed a humbling read for me. I consider myself a student of history and I had never heard of the particulars of this tragedy. God rest the millions who where sacraficed to the horrors that spawned from Marxism.

[LadyDoc]

When I was a kid, we had an old "book of the month" book from the 1940', one of famous JOhn Gunther's "INSIDE....
" books.

I don't remember if it was "inside Europe" or "inside Russia. He had a chapter lauding Stalin's steel like will in reforming Russia. There was a sentence (I paraphrase) about the peasents (?kulaks or Ukrainian) opposing his farm reforms, and it said something like: they killed their animals and didn't plant much in protest, but due to his iron will, he won. The implication was that they died, but wasn't it wonderful that he won the argument. I was only a kid and horrified.

I wonder if anyone in the press would find that book and expose it's lies...

[notdownwidems]

Good post; Mona Charen's excellent 'Useful Idiots' details how Duranty was blackmailed using standard NKVD tactics, i.e. getting him in a sexually compromising position, (not sure with a man or a woman, lol!) then holding the resulting pictures over his head.
Also, I think (can't remember the source) that it has been shown that Henry Wallace himself was a Soviet agent...can any freeper help us out here?
The tragedy of the Ukrainian holocaust is indeed a painful reminder of the left's double standard when it comes to pain and suffering. Makes Stalin out to be the most evil man in world history, but I think we all knew that!