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  • Pope prays for victims of 1932-33 Ukrainian famine (graphic images)

    11/24/2008 1:53:52 PM PST · by NYer · 3 replies · 690+ views
    CNS ^ | November 24, 2008 | John Thavis
    VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI prayed for the victims of the 1932-33 "Great Famine" that left millions dead in Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union. In an apparent reference to the Soviet policies of collectivization and food confiscation that provoked the famine, the pope condemned ideologically based governmental actions that violate basic human rights. He made the remarks at a noon blessing at the Vatican Nov. 23, at a time when many Ukrainians were commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, or "death by hunger," the name given to the famine that occurred in the Soviet...
  • For The Cause: Times Should Disavow Past Pro-Soviet Propaganda

    11/26/2005 3:33:03 PM PST · by Isara · 9 replies · 839+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 11/28/2005 | Editor
    Media: It wasn't covered by The New York Times, but the Ukrainian protest outside the Times building was news fit to print.Haven't heard anything about the hourlong demonstration on Nov. 18? Few have. The establishment media ignored the Ukrainians' protest against the Pulitzer Prize that Times correspondent Walter Duranty got in 1932 for his reporting on Josef Stalin's Soviet Union in 1931. Our search could not turn up a single instance of news coverage of this event.Seems like the Times could at least have sent an intern downstairs to make note of the demonstration. ..... But we understand. Why should...