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Is There a Famine?
Stalin wanted to break Ukraine. He wanted to collectivize the countryside. And he succeeded maybe not entirely, but very heavily. Walter Durante was a New York Times man in Moscow who got to interview Stalin. Gareth Jones figured out what was happening because he got off his train to stop early and just walk through the countryside. The entire Western press corps called him a liar and a propagandist.