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==Stalinism==

==Stalinism==

Duranty is known for being a Stalinist sympathizer, Soviet propagandist, and blatant liar. Duranty's reports stated that the Soviets were ruling in the best interest of the people.  He referred to Stalin as "the greatest living statesman".  He claimed that his time spent in the USSR represented "a heroic chapter in the life of humanity"<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/stuttaford051501.shtml</ref>. Stalin himself told Duranty "You have done a good job in your reporting of the USSR"<ref>Walter Duranty, ''I write as I Please''. Simon and Schuster 1935.</ref>  Even though Duranty was criticized initially, it was not until 1980 that the ''Times'' publicly acknowledged his failure<ref>http://www.nytco.com/company-awards-pulitzer-note.html</ref>. Many other Ukrainian and human rights organizations have protested his obvious bias.  The American ex-Communist [[Jay Lovestone]] has suggested that Duranty worked for the [[OGPU]]. Journalist Joseph Alsop claimed that "Duranty was a great [[KGB]] agent and lying like a trooper." Lev Navrozov, a [[Russia]]n emigre who wrote a book titled ''"What The New York Times Knows About the World"'' said that Duranty's articles and books should be retitled as "A Drunken Sailor's Yarns About a Foreign Country" or "A Crazy Housewife's Chatter About Something She Knows Nothing About."<ref>[http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1983/378320.shtml ''The New York Times and the Great Famine'' by Marco Carynnyk]</ref>

Duranty is known for being a Stalinist sympathizer, Soviet propagandist, and blatant liar. Duranty's reports stated that the Soviets were ruling in the best interest of the people.  He referred to Stalin as "the greatest living statesman".  He claimed that his time spent in the USSR represented "a heroic chapter in the life of humanity".<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/stuttaford051501.shtml]</ref>  Stalin himself told Duranty "You have done a good job in your reporting of the USSR"<ref>Walter Duranty, ''I write as I Please''. Simon and Schuster 1935.</ref>  Even though Duranty was criticized initially, it was not until 1980 that the ''Times'' publicly acknowledged his failure.<ref>http://www.nytco.com/company-awards-pulitzer-note.html</ref>  Many other Ukrainian and human rights organizations have protested his obvious bias.  The American ex-Communist [[Jay Lovestone]] has suggested that Duranty worked for the [[OGPU]]. Journalist Joseph Alsop claimed that "Duranty was a great [[KGB]] agent and lying like a trooper." Lev Navrozov, a [[Russia]]n emigre who wrote a book titled ''"What The New York Times Knows About the World"'' said that Duranty's articles and books should be retitled as "A Drunken Sailor's Yarns About a Foreign Country" or "A Crazy Housewife's Chatter About Something She Knows Nothing About."<ref>[http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1983/378320.shtml ''The New York Times and the Great Famine'' by Marco Carynnyk]</ref>

==[[Holodomor]]==

==[[Holodomor]]==

Duranty is best known for his stringent denial of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, known as [[Holodomor]].  Duranty refused to report on the man-made famine that killed up to twelve million people.<ref>http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0310.asp#2</ref>  Duranty also claimed other journalists who reported the truth of the USSR, such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, were liars<ref>http://www.ucca.org/famine/</ref>. Muggeridge went on to call Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism." Some of Duranty's most well known lies and falsehoods about Holodomor are:  

Duranty is best known for his stringent denial of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, known as [[Holodomor]].  Duranty refused to report on the man-made famine that killed up to twelve million people.<ref>http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0310.asp#2</ref>  Duranty also claimed other journalists who reported the truth of the USSR, such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, were liars.<ref>http://www.ucca.org/famine/</ref>  Muggeridge went on to call Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism." Some of Duranty's most well known lies and falsehoods about Holodomor are:  

*"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."  

*"There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."  

**--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1  

**--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1  

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== Further Reading ==

== Further reading ==

*Crowl, James W. ''Angels in Stalin's Paradise: Western Reporters in Soviet Russia, 1917-1937; A Case Study of Louis Fischer and Walter Duranty''. Washington, D.C.: The University of America Press (1981)

*Crowl, James W. ''Angels in Stalin's Paradise: Western Reporters in Soviet Russia, 1917-1937; A Case Study of Louis Fischer and Walter Duranty''. Washington, D.C.: The University of America Press (1981)

*Duranty, Walter, ''I write as I Please''. Simon and Schuster 1935

*Duranty, Walter, ''I write as I Please''. Simon and Schuster 1935

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