Walter Duranty
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Walter Duranty was an Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War.
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Soviet famine of 1930–1933
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The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and parts of Russia. Major factors included the forced collectivization of agricul
Walter Duranty
…Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, eleven of which were published in June 1931. He was later criticized for his subsequent denial of the widespread famine (1930–1933) in the USSR, most particularly the Holodomor. Beginning in 1990, there were calls for the Pulitzer Board to revoke…
A starving man lying on the ground in the Ukrainian SSR
Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933
The inscription says "At this place will be a monument to famine victims of the years 1931–1933" in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan. The upper half is in Kazakh language, the lower part is in Russian.
At least three of Mikhail Gorbachev's ethnic Russian relatives were victims of the 1932–1933 famine in the Stavropol Krai region