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To: xJones

The media at the time rightly attacked Germany's invasion of Poland but never got around to condemning the Soviets when they stabbed the Poles in the back a couple of weeks later.


20 posted on 12/12/2004 9:21:22 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan
The media at the time rightly attacked Germany's invasion of Poland but never got around to condemning the Soviets when they stabbed the Poles in the back a couple of weeks later.

What else could be expected from them? Read Paul Johnson's Modern Times for one eye-opener.

For instance, there was the little matter of Walter Duranty, the acclaimed New York Times Pulitzer Prise winning reporter who was on the take from Stalin while he was stationed in Moscow.

Duranty got sweetheart deals while reporting that millions of Ukrainians weren't being starved to death on Stalin's orders, all reports to the contrary were laughable.

The exact Ukrainian death toll from the enforced Soviet starvation in 1931-1932 can only be guessed at between 5 and 10 million Ukrainians. The Soviets didn't keep the exacting records of their alter-egos, the Nazis.

But Western liberals fell in love with Soviet propaganda, and Duranty fed them the BS they wanted to hear for privileges living in Moscow. The NY Times has never returned his Pulitzer Prize, they still act like Duranty honestly earned it. Yet Duranty was only the tip of iceberg, he lied in his reports while telling others at the time that he knew massive starvation was going on in the Ukraine but the cause was more important...

26 posted on 12/12/2004 9:41:35 AM PST by xJones
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