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"The younger peasants already understand that the Kremlin's way will benefit them in the long run, that machines and mass cultivation are superior to the old 'strip system' and individual farming."
--Duranty @nytimes 9/17-19/33
"Today the labor turnover runs to 100 percent or more per year, due partly no doubt to hard conditions and the hope of finding something better elsewhere, but even more to an ancient habit of wandering and the desire for change." 10/1/33 Looking for food is just an old habit
"hard as life is here in Russia this correspondent is willing to go on record that no youngsters anywhere have a better time or are likely to make more useful citizens." --@nytimes 5/29/31
"From a strictly dispassionate standpoint, the Bolshevik Five-Year Plan is a superb political invention." @nytimes 10/3/29
"I myself was lamentably wrong about the extent and gravity of the 'man-made famine' in Russia during the fight to collectivize the farms, in 1930-33. But every reporter who is worth his salt tries always to tell the truth" --Walter Duranty, 1941
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"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." --Duranty, NY Times, August 23, 1933 Not only did they lie to cover up a genocide, they accused those who exposed it of lying and doing so for nefarious purposes.
It's 800 miles from Donetsk to Lviv
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