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12 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “ НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ ”, ЛЮТИЙ 2020 Is there anything more that the UNWLA could do to contribute to the memorialization of the truth about the Ukraine Holodomor - Genocide of 1932 - 1933 ? A recent opportunity came knocking on our door. It concerns Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (August 1905 – August 1935) , a Welsh journalist. Jones was the first journalist who, unli ke others, wrote openly and under his own name about the atrocities of the Soviet engineered famine of 1932 – 19 33, including the Holodomor , a stark contrast to o ther journalists , like Malcolm Muggeridge of the Manchester Guardian who wrote anonymously or Walter Duranty of the New York Times who totally denied the existence of the Holodomor. In March of 1933, Jones actually travelled to the Soviet Union . On March 7, he slipped into Ukraine by eluding the authorities. He secretly kept diaries of the man - made starvation he witnessed. On his return to Germany on March 29 , he issued his press release, which wa s published by many newspapers, including The Manchester Guardian and the New York Evening Post . Quotes from his diary are revealing : “ I walked along through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was the cry, 'There is no bread. We are dying . ' This cry came from every part of Russia . . . I tramped through the black earth region because that was once the richest farmland in Russia and because the correspondents have been forbidden to go there to see for themselves what is happening. In the train a Communist denied to me that there was a famine. I fl ung a crust of bread which I had been eating from my own supply into a spittoon. A peasant fellow - passenger fished it out and ravenously ate it. I threw an orange peel into the spittoon and the peasant again grabbed it and devoured it. The Communist subsided. I stayed overnight in a village where there used to be two hundred oxen and where there now are six. The peasants were eating the cattle fodder and had only a month's supply left. They told me that many had already died of hunger. Two soldiers came to arrest a thief. They warned me against travel by night, as there were too many 'starving' desperate men. 'We are waiting for death' was my welcome , but see, we still, have our cattle fodder. Go farther south. There they have nothing. Many houses are empty of people already dead,' they cried.” Gareth’s report was unwelcome to most of the media, because the “intelligentsia” was in sympathy with the Soviet regime. On March 31, Walter Duranty of The New York Times wrote a denial of Jones' statement under the headline "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving . " Duranty called Jones' report "a big scare story . " The newspaper did, however, publish a strong rebuttal from Jones, who stood by his report. Maxim Litvinov (the Soviet Foreign Commissar wh om Jones had interviewed while in Moscow ) wrote to Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister o f the United Kingdom, stating that Jones was banned from ever visiting the Soviet Union again. Jones was murdered under suspicious circumstances in March 1935 while visiting China. Jones was 29. T he National Library of Wales is the current custodian of the Gareth Vaughan Jones Papers — a n extremely valuable collection , which includ es papers detailing Jones’ life and work, his correspondence, drafts of articles and diaries, and, of course, the original notes he made during his travels through Ukraine. Professor Lubomyr Luciuk’s "Tell Them We Are Starving: The 1933 Soviet Diaries of Gareth Jones," #2 in the series.
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