![]() ![]() ![]() He went on in his article to attempt to discredit the statements of a Western journalist, British reporter Gareth Jones, who got the story of the famine painfully right.7 Duranty told New York Times readers that he had initially believed Jones’s account that there was “virtually no bread” in many villages but that Jones had not seen dead animals or people. ![]() These conditions are bad but there is no famine.”ĭuranty did not stop there. “The rest of the country is on short rations but nothing worse. “In short, conditions are definitely bad in certain sections-the Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga,” he wrote. In his “breaking eggs” Times article of March 31, 1933,6 Duranty flatly denied that there was a famine at all. Duranty, who was the New York Times’s leading correspondent in Russia at the time, saw nothing particularly amiss. ![]()
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