Ukraine's Historic Famine Shown In Intimate Insight

The failure of civilized culture to come to terms with communism's horrendous history is nowhere shown more clearly than in history's indifference to the planned starvation of farmers in the Ukraine in the in the 1920s.





Now, an exhibit in England unveils the diaries of an unsung Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, whose heroic reporting told the world about the starvation of some four to five million people under the dictates of Joseph Stalin.


Jones's accounts should have formed the scripts of half a dozen films by now; there have been less than a handful. Instead, the New York Times of his day disputed his stories that ran in the New York Post. A very few books and movies have covered the truth. The Left seems not to want to hear it.
But, history that is denied or downplayed has a way of emerging at the most inopportune moments. The world should pay close attention to the Jones diaries.


Written by Bruce Chapman.