What the misreporting of the Ukraine famine in the 1930s tells us about the press today
STARVATION DURING THE HOLOMODOR, IMAGE POSTED AT THE HISTORY COLLECTION, FROM A YOUTUBE VIDEO
Seeing the film “Mr Jones” set me reading several books on the Ukraine famine of 1932/33, the so-called Holodomor, that killed almost four million people. The books were written by Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder and Dr Margaret Siriol Colley, the niece of the real life protagonist, Gareth Jones, who visited the Ukraine and revealed the famine.
The deaths were the result of Stalin’s policies - - - -