In 1933, Gareth Jones took an unsupervised three-week tour of Ukraine and reported the starvation-genocide being perpetrated there. The Soviets told the western reporters covering a contemporaneous show trial that their visas would be revoked if they did not repudiate him.
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"Jones pitied the journalists who had been turned 'into masters of euphemism and understatement.' Hence, 'they give "famine" the polite name of "food shortage," and 'starving to death' is softened down to read as 'widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.'"
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And Walter Duranty walked away with a Pulitzer.
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* correction to my comment: Duranty Pulitzer was ‘32
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The trailer for “Mr. Jones” is pretty good. Cant wait to see it. Hopefully these younger generations will see how terrible socialism is in real life. But sadly i’m sure they will attempt to “explain how it wasnt true socialism”
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This red pill is, unfortunately, the bitterest one for most people to swallow.
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Luckily, we now have Alternative News that is shutting down the far left Corporate Press run by University trained Marxists
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Yeah I prefer state press. I don't trust them corporations. Seriously though, to ignore the human frailties inherent in any secondhand information is dumb. To imagine it is uniformly untrustworthy is also dumb. Binaries are great for simple minds and population control only.
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Cheerleaders for any war. Once for the nephew of an emperor. Once to clean up the mess from that war. Then for profit and power. Weapons of mass destruction. Well, I guess they share all that with the intelligence agencies. Coincidence they tell the same lies I'm sure.
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But, you’re Still Here Dancing!
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