And, it should be noted that the writer is the world's leading academic on Holdomor-advisor to the 1988 U.S. Congress Commission on the famine. His worlds and the letters from eyewitnesses should carry far more weight, than Duranty's, a known Commie symp.
Prof. James Mace has an interesting history. From Oklamona. He had, he says, "leftist" tendencies. In other words, he had long hair and was against the Viet Nam war in the 1970s.
He got into Russian studies by way of exploring the evils of colonialism and imperialism.
Learning about the Holodomor changed his political outlook and his life.
Mace did much of the research for Robert Conquets's book, "The Harvest of Sorrow."