One Pulitzer That Should Shake the World (Moscow Times: New York Times hid communist crimes)

Moscow Times ^ | 6/15/03 | Matt Bivens

[secretagent]

Quite the stinger in the last line.

[DoughtyOne]

In all sincerity, my God, this is terrible. I wasn't even aware of it. How could this guy state that it was only Russians and a few eggs need to be broken. Geez Louise, the press is capable of rationalizing anything away aren't they.

[DPB101]

The New York Times is in a world of hurt when a writer from The Nation Magazine and The Moscow Times accuses the paper of being sympathetic to communism.

Gareth Jones is the Welsh reporter who first reported on the Holodomor. His great nephew posted on Free Republic earlier today here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927713/posts?page=31#31

The Jones family is understandably delighted that Gareth is finally receiving the recognition he deserves (Gareth was only 29 when he killed by bandits in Munchukuo while investigation Japanese expansion into Northern China).

A great archive of articles by Gareth Jones, Malcolm Muggeridge and the notorious 1933 "omelet" Moscow dispatch by Walter Duranty is at the Jones website here:

http://colley.co.uk/garethjones/

[Savage Beast]

"the Holodomor slipped down the memory hole"

And if history and the recording of truth relied upon the American "mainstream newsmedia", a helluva lot more than that would "slip" down the memory hole!

"Doesn't that tarnish the other 88?"

Yes, of course, but that's far from the only thing.

And so much for that "newspaper of record" schtik.

Truth itself is the only "newspaper of record"!

[Ciexyz]

Glory, never thought I'd see the day when the NYT would have to answer for this coverup.

[Savage Beast]

"Geez Louise, the press is capable of rationalizing anything away aren't they."

Yes, and they're still at it.

[DPB101]

Liz suggested we go after Sydney Schanberg's Pulitzer next. At the time when Pol Pot was gearing up to murder a few million people, Sydney's reportage from Phnom Penh was headlined thusly:

"Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."

[struwwelpeter]

Actually, even the US goverment was pretty taken in by Stalin. In 1944 Vice President Henry Wallace visited the "Gulag" to put to rest rumors about death camps run by the Russians, similar to the Nazi camps.

From Kolyma - Land of Gold and Death, by Stanislav Kovalski:

"One dose of Stalin's "truth" was presented to the American Vice-President, Henry Wallace, when in 1944 he visited Kolyma. After the visit he left the country with the absolute conviction that "no such camps existed," in total agreement with the British philosopher, Bertrand Russell. Whatever was shown to the man who held one of the highest offices in the USA he accepted it as the truth and presented it in his book "Soviet Asia Mission." From this book the American reader learned that the gold miners of Kolyma are "big husky young men who came out to the Far East from European Russia," and who were "pioneers of machine age, builders of cities." He was greatly impressed with Kolyma's director Nikishov and his wife Gridassova, with Magadan's cultural life and with the shops full of Russian goods. The truth was that during his three-day stay the chiefs of Kolyma did their best to conceal the factual reality. The wooden watchtowers were pulled down, the prisoners were not allowed to leave their barracks and not even the least aspect of prison life was exposed to the American visitor. He was taken to the only farm in the region, 23 kilometers from Magadan, where well dressed and well fed girls, (police women disguised as swineherds), gave a false impression of the agricultural endeavor in that part of the country. He was also flown to the North, to the mine Berelakh, where he found the state mining to be an impressive enterprise."

"The miners, according to him, were healthy and well-clad men, and more productive than their counterparts in Alaska's Fairbanks. Being served with delicious fresh fish from Kolyma River he offered his compliments to the "presiding chef of the mining camp." The deception was total and successful. The outside world got the firsthand knowledge about Kolyma from the man who deserved his trust. Who would disbelieve or dispute information from the Vice-President of the United States of America, a force for truth and justice? "

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the excellent linkage. I'll check this out.


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[DoughtyOne]

Dang, that's sad.

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed!

[Just mythoughts]

Only our Heavenly Father knows the exact number of individuals slaughter to that religion of communism.

The liberal/socialist/communistic party know as the Democrat party never points to the evil of that religion.

Stalin was the face of evil of modern times and he had a couple of students, Hitler and Saddam among others who claim secular government religion in their world wide attempt to wipe out Christianity.

Maybe some will start asking themselves was McCarthy onto something and how sick and twisted yet today so many are who think the worst thing that to call someone is McCarthy or to cry McCarthyism.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have the same mind as Stalin as well as their supporters and the thing that stopped them from destroying conservatives from Stalin like destruction is our constitution that they spend 24/7 trying to destroy.

[liberalnot]

only a month or so ago, the new york times had a full page list of pulitzers that they'd won.

duranty's name was near the top.

[DPB101]

Vice President Henry Wallace's speechwriter, Charles Kramer, was a Soviet agent. Before working for Wallace, Kramer was on the staff of Democrat Sen. Harley Kilgore. When The American Mercury and others noticed Kilgore's agenda was eerily similar to that of the Soviet Union, they were mocked and called Red Baiters.

Forget who it was--either Harry Dexter White or Lauchlin Currie (both close to FDR and both Soviet agents) went with Wallace on his tour of the Soviet gulag.

[Liz]

Too bad, Syd. Your Pulitzer is going, going, gone.

[kimosabe31]

"Maybe some will start asking themselves was McCarthy onto something and how sick and twisted yet today so many are who think the worst thing that to call someone is McCarthy or to cry McCarthyism."

Joe McCarthy was right!!

[gcruse]

"Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life."

"These people don't value human life like we do."

"Kill a gook for God!"

[DPB101]

Democrats in Congress sure got a lot of "gooks", as you call them, killed when they cut off funding. At least two million. Maybe three. We'll never know for sure.

"The growing hysteria of the administration's posture on Cambodia, seems to me to reflect a determined refusal to consider what the fall of the existing government in Phnom Penh would actually mean.... We should be able to see that the kind of government which would succeed Lon Nol's forces would most likely be a government ... run by some of the best-educated, most able intellectuals in Cambodia."---Senator George McGovern

"The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now."--Chris Dodd (D-CT)

I give Senator McGovern credit however. When he learned of what the Khymer Rouge were doing, he wanted to send American troops back in. That took some guts even to suggest back then.

[gcruse]

The moment the US decided to fight less than an allout war, the South Vietnamese were doomed.