Duranty was not alone for this fraud. Check out the Kliefoth Memo. The NYT had an agreement with Stalin to report only what Stalin OKed. Famine has bee used repeatedly by “progressives.” The famine in postwar Europe was created by Harry Dexter White (a Soviet agent) and Henry Morgenthau.
No reports were sent out of Russia at the time unless they were checked off and approved by censors. The Muggeridge report on the famine was smuggled out in a Diplomatic pouch.