In March 1933, the Guardian published a series of articles about the Holodomor, or ‘death by hunger’, that was unleashed on Ukraine as part of Stalin’s drive to collectivise farming across the Soviet UnionIn the spring of 1933, Malcolm Muggeridge, the Manchester Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, discovered the existence of widespread man-made famine in the Soviet Union. Travelling secretly through Ukraine and the North Caucasus, formerly the USSR bread basket, he was appalled at the scenes of mass starvation and piles of dead bodies. His three reports – smuggled out in a diplomatic bag to evade censorship – were published anonymously on 25, 27 and 28 March 1933. A fellow journalist Gareth Jones, also published his own stories about the famine. Continue reading…
In March 1933, the Guardian published a series of articles about the Holodomor, or ‘death by hunger’, that was unleashed on Ukraine as part of Stalin’s drive to collectivise farming across the Soviet Union
In the spring of 1933, Malcolm Muggeridge, the Manchester Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, discovered the existence of widespread man-made famine in the Soviet Union. Travelling secretly through Ukraine and the North Caucasus, formerly the USSR bread basket, he was appalled at the scenes of mass starvation and piles of dead bodies. His three reports – smuggled out in a diplomatic bag to evade censorship – were published anonymously on 25, 27 and 28 March 1933. A fellow journalist Gareth Jones, also published his own stories about the famine.