One of the foulest crimes against humanity in living memory was the famine deliberately caused by Josef Stalin in the Ukraine.* One of the foulest crimes against humanity in living memory was the famine deliberately caused by Josef Stalin in the Ukraine. At the time, Walter Duranty Walter Duranty (1884–October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born British journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of stories he wrote in 1931 as The New York Times Moscow correspondent, covering Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plan to industrialize the Soviet Union. of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times took a journey through the region, and saw the corpses of the dead and dying, many of them by the roadside and the train tracks. There was no need to fuss about a few unimportant local shortages, he then reported in a series of articles for the Times, and for this he was awarded the Pulitzer prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. in 1932. This archetypal ar·che·type n. 1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . fellow-traveler lied gladly for the Soviets, and his lies have dishonored dis·hon·or n. 1. Loss of honor, respect, or reputation. 2. The condition of having lost honor or good repute. 3. A cause of loss of honor: was a dishonor to the club. 4. the Pulitzer prize and the Times ever since. Ukrainians first and foremost have never forgiven him. The latest move to have Duranty's prize revoked has failed. The Pulitzer board says there's no evidence of deliberate deception, though that of course disqualifies Duranty outright as a reporter. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the Times, thinks that revoking the prize would be like the Soviet practice of airbrushing people out of history. Hold on: It was Duranty who was airbrushing out victims by the million. But the Pulitzer board and Sulzberger do join in "extending sympathy to those who suffered." How very, very kind of them. |
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