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Stalin murdered between 5 and 10 million Ukrainians, 1932-1933. I’ll make a reasonable point estimate of 7 million people. This episode is sometimes referred to at the Holodomor. I simply call it the Ukrainian Holocaust.
Back then, a lot of Democrats called Joseph Stalin “Uncle Joe.”
Walter Duranty headed the Moscow office of the New York Times. Reporting for the New York Times, he rejected talk of mass-murder by Stalin. I think most other papers remained silent. Duranty and the New York Times received the Pulitzer prize for his reporting.
Private papers later showed that Duranty thought 10 million Ukrainians had died. He kept that to himself.
It’s often been said that “we must remember the (Jewish) Holocaust or it will happen again.” I’ve never heard anyone attempt to justify that certitude. Maybe it’s true and we have evidence to that effect. With considerable help from the New York Times and others, we forgot about the Ukrainian Holocaust; it happened again to the Jews in Germany.