Arthur Koestler, the famous writer who visited Ukraine in late summer of 1932 and fall 1933 and who spent about three months in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv writes in The God That Failed:I saw the ravages of the famine of 1932-1933 in the Ukraine: hordes of families in rags begging at the railway stations, the women lifting up to the compartment window their starving brats, which, with drumstick limbs, big cadaverous heads and puffed bellies, looked like embryos out of alcohol bottles ...Koestler wrote a book on his impressions of the Soviet Union, commisioned by the party, but it was not published.
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No wonder my grandmother keeps trying to give me her food at dinner.
Somehow the New York Times missed all this. And they still proudly display Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize in their lobby.
The NYT is trash.
I remember reading a short work on communism put out by the John Birch Society many years ago that contained an interview with a former US communist. The ex-communist stated that whenever he had a problem he was to call a telephone number located in a large office tower in Manhattan. The NYT really is betraying its owners biases when it displays that pulitzer.
The Pulitzer committee should be ashamed too for not retracting the award.
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