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[[Image:Duranty.jpg|right|thumb|Walter Duranty]]

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| death_date  = October 3, 1957

| death_place = Orlando, Florida

| nationality = British

'''Walter Duranty''' (1884-1957) was a correspondent for the ''[[New York Times]]'' who violated the public trust by sending pro-Soviet stories home, pretending that all was well even as Russia starved 6 million Ukrainians to death. Bewilderingly, he was awarded a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for telling these lies.<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/05/prize-specime-andrew-stuttaford/ Prize Specime]</ref>  In the 1990s, ''The New York Times'' admitted that Duranty's work amounted to "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper."<ref name="Blair">[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-14-et-rutten14-story.html The Blair affair fuels a 70-year-old scandal]</ref>

'''Walter Duranty''' (1884-1957) was a correspondent for the ''[[New York Times]]'' who violated the public trust by sending pro-Soviet stories home, pretending that all was well even as Russia starved 6 million Ukrainians to death. Bewilderingly, he was awarded a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for telling these lies.<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/05/prize-specime-andrew-stuttaford/ Prize Specime]</ref>  In the 1990s, ''The New York Times'' admitted that Duranty's work amounted to "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper."<ref name="Blair">[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-14-et-rutten14-story.html The Blair affair fuels a 70-year-old scandal]</ref>

==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 name="stuttaford">[https://www.andrewstuttaford.com/archive/2001/05/15/the-paper-of-record-an-apology-that-is-long-overdue The Paper of Record]</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>[https://www.nytco.com/company/prizes-awards/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-walter-duranty/ New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</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 name="stuttaford">[https://www.andrewstuttaford.com/archive/2001/05/15/the-paper-of-record-an-apology-that-is-long-overdue The Paper of Record]</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>[https://www.nytco.com/company/prizes-awards/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-walter-duranty/ New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</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==