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Tuesday May 02, 2006 16:05

by Pushkin - VLL PIS FI (ICR)

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Here is a story about Gareth Jones who exposed a famine in Stalins Soviet Union which killed up to 10 million people. It was a manmade famine caused by Stalins insane purging of the Kulaks and the creation of agricultural "plans" which had set dates for planting and harvesting regardless of local conditions or the state of the crops.

'Unsung hero' reporter remembered

A plaque has been unveiled at Aberystwyth University in memory of a murdered Welsh journalist dubbed an "unsung hero" of Ukraine.
Gareth Jones exposed a famine in the former Soviet Union in 1932 that killed millions, but was later shot by bandits in Inner Mongolia in 1935.

During his brief career, Mr Jones, from Barry in south Wales, also reported on the rise of Germany's Nazi Party. Ukraine's ambassador to the UK attended the unveiling ceremony on Tuesday.

As well as visiting the Soviet Union, he reported on President Roosevelt in the United States, on Mussolini's rise in Italy and the troubles in Ireland. He was also in Leipzig the day Adolf Hitler was made Germany's Chancellor in 1933, and later flew with the dictator to a rally in Frankfurt and interviewed Hitler's head of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

But perhaps his greatest achievement as a journalist was his expose of the famine in Ukraine, the Caucasus and Kazakhstan in 1932/3, which is estimated to have killed between seven and 10 million people. The story was reported around the world, but the journalist was later banned from ever returning to the Soviet Union.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/4964784.stm

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Comments (41 of 41)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	A steaming pile of revisionist *****	Irish ML	Wed May 03, 2006 07:24
2	Irish ML	historian	Wed May 03, 2006 09:46
3	Defending Stalin?	Mr. T.	Wed May 03, 2006 10:37
4	Against anti-Soviet historical revisionism	Irish ML	Thu May 04, 2006 07:09
5	Hey, ML - What nice words do you have for Hitler?	Mr. T.	Thu May 04, 2006 10:46
6	Che's views on stalin	KevBranno	Thu May 04, 2006 18:12
7	Biography or Autobiography?	Mr. T.	Thu May 04, 2006 18:44
8	without being really smart in response to one of our most annoying recent pseudonoms / commenters	huh?	Thu May 04, 2006 20:39
9	Jorge Castaneda	KevBranno	Thu May 04, 2006 20:56
10	Just Me	An Observer	Thu May 04, 2006 21:40
11	€ £	KevBranno	Thu May 04, 2006 22:13
12	KevBranno - our positions are not far apart...	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 01:05
13	Thanks for the author's name...	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 01:34
14	Who Has Killed the Most	The Great Djerginski	Fri May 05, 2006 10:53
15	The Mediocre Dzerzhinsky	Historian	Fri May 05, 2006 11:16
16	A question to historian	A real historian	Fri May 05, 2006 11:30
17	Oooooh!	historian	Fri May 05, 2006 12:50
18	There you go more rubbish from historian	A real historian	Fri May 05, 2006 13:00
19	Your precious CCCP & PRC lead the murderers league tables	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 13:11
20	Mr. Total nonsense	A real historian	Fri May 05, 2006 13:26
21	Big Numbers Man	The Great Djerginski	Fri May 05, 2006 13:50
22	Something's Wrong	Ronan Bennett	Fri May 05, 2006 16:56
23	A picture is worth a thousand words	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 17:13
24	Capitalism kills.	Stalin was not stallin..	Fri May 05, 2006 17:44
25	How Many?	pat c	Fri May 05, 2006 18:24
26	Pat C. - you wrongly assume that Soviet population stats were accurate...	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 19:07
27	Link to the report was truncated...	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 19:08
28	Mr T	pat c	Fri May 05, 2006 19:16
29	Pat C. - not arguing that WESP is competant or not...	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 20:08
30	When Uncle Joe was a good guy	Stalin wasn't stallin	Fri May 05, 2006 20:26
31	I've been reading this thread & comments & couldn't resist the temptation to be ironic.	iosaf	Fri May 05, 2006 20:47
32	The corrosive power of relativism...	Mr. T.	Fri May 05, 2006 23:17
33	Mr T..speaking for ...?	Stalin wasn't stallin	Sat May 06, 2006 02:46
34	More relativism from Stallin for Stalin...	Mr. T.	Sat May 06, 2006 12:23
35	A Comprehensive Explanation	The Great Djerginski	Sat May 06, 2006 17:11
36	Have another look at the Topic, Mr. D.	Mr. T.	Sat May 06, 2006 19:35
37	Where would you be today..Mr T...	Stalin wasn't stallin	Sat May 06, 2006 23:49
38	Take another draw from your opium pipe...	Mr. T.	Sun May 07, 2006 02:18
39	re: Mr T	Stalin wasn't stallin	Sun May 07, 2006 20:54
40	Jones' bona fide credentials	Mr. T.	Tue May 09, 2006 02:18
41	Marxism - Not Dead Yet!	blackminorcapullets	Sun Jun 04, 2006 16:04

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