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/* Soviet crimes against humanity */
==Controversies==
===Soviet crimes against humanity===
[[Image:Holodomor2.jpg|right|thumb|Genocide victimsVictims of Soviet government "agricultural reform" policies.]]
:''Main article:'' [[Holodomor]]
*In 1931, ''Times'' correspondent [[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 also called other journalists who reported on it liars<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref><ref name=Conquest />. 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>.
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