| − | In 1931, ''Times'' correspondent and [[Soviet]] sympathizer/propagandist/collaborator [[Walter Duranty]] intentionally covered up the Soviet [[Holodomor|genocide]] of the [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]].<ref>[http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</ref> Duranty not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but [[discrediting attack|also called other journalists who reported on it "liars"]].<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref><ref>Robert Conquest</ref> The lack of knowledge of this genocide was observed by English writer [[George Orwell]], who commented "''huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English Russophiles"''.<ref>"''Notes on Nationalism''" in "The ''Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell''" ([[London]], 1968), Vol. 3, p. 370.</ref> The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people.<ref>http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/184/0/33564/</ref> | + | In 1931, ''Times'' correspondent and [[Soviet]] sympathizer/propagandist/collaborator [[Walter Duranty]] intentionally covered up the Soviet [[Holodomor|genocide]] of the [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]].<ref>[http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</ref> Duranty not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but [[discrediting attack|also called other journalists who reported on it "liars"]].<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref><ref>Robert Conquest</ref> The lack of knowledge of this genocide was observed by English writer [[George Orwell]], who commented "''huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English Russophiles"''.<ref>"''Notes on Nationalism''" in "The ''Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell''" ([[London]], 1968), Vol. 3, p. 370.</ref> The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people.<ref>http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/184/0/33564/</ref> All ethnic groups residing in the Ukrainian borderlands - Ukrainian, ethnic [[Russians]], [[Poles]], [[Jews]], [[Gypsies]], [[Tater]]s and others - died in the Holodomor. |