Major media outlets are often accused of downplaying atrocities of socialist regimes, and nowhere is that clearer than with the treatment of former USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) by The New York Times and others, say those with personal experience in the former federation.
Fox News took a look at some of the most over-the-top examples: In 1931, New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty reported that “there is no famine...
nor is there likely to be” in Soviet-occupied Ukraine. In 1932, he was awarded the coveted Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Soviet Union.
But, on the ground, reporters discovered a tragically different picture. “Millions are dying of hunger,” freelance journalist Gareth Jones reported in 1933.
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