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In the era of Comrade Vladimir, especially during the period of the New Economic Policy, Soviet Russia was not closed, because Vladimir was a good comrade with real faith, and he longed for the whole world to hear the voice of Soviet Russia and know the great cause that Soviet Russia was creating.

So many journalists were able to come and go in Moscow freely, but Stalin, who came to power, was a more sober realist politician than Vladimir, everything was practical, and at first he did not prohibit Western journalists from reporting, but when the first five-year plan of Soviet Russia was completed, and it was standing at the pinnacle of honor to raise funds for the preparation of the second five-year plan, the famine broke out in Ukraine.

Stalin didn't want Westerners to report on this kind of thing, so he found an excuse to expel all Western journalists from Moscow, and all the reporters who could cover freely were specially approved by the Soviet Union.

Among them were three well-known British journalists, one of whom was Duranty, who was British but was employed by the New York Times. The other two British journalists were reporters for the Manchester Guardian, one named Muglich and the other Jones.

The Manchester Guardian was a relatively left-leaning newspaper, and Muglich himself was a left-winger, a British journalist who was very popular with Soviet Russia during the Labour Party's rule.

Duranty, Mugrich and Jones, both British, have a good personal relationship, and they got together in Moscow.

Duranty himself is an eight-sided guy, he has no obvious value orientation, must say anything, that is, unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, this person in order to achieve fame, his future as a journalist gambled on the mysterious Soviet Russia, he very planned to spend a year, constantly sing praises to Soviet Russia, published all kinds of news that is almost the official consciousness of Soviet Russia, his report not only won the welcome of many left-wing readers in Western countries, but also made the Soviet Russian government ecstatic, and reprinted his hegemony back home. As a weapon to confuse their own people, 'Look, Western journalists sing the praises of Soviet Russia like this, what reason do you have to be unhappy?' So Duranty's fame in Soviet Russia grew, and it was then that he chose to come to Moscow.

He soon opened up the scene in Moscow, made friends with many high-ranking Soviet and Russian officials, and even received the great leader personally, got the honor of interviewing the great leader, personally received the guidance of the great leader, and became an "old friend" of the Soviet Russian people.

Because of Duranty's reporting, Muglich and Jones initially thought that he was a left-wing journalist, and they had a good impression of him, believing that he had reported the truth about the greatest and most advanced country in the human world to the whole world, and they were envious that he could not be appreciated by the great leader.

But at the beginning of the famine, everything changed, and the journalists in Moscow heard all kinds of gossip about the fact that there was a severe famine in Ukraine.

At first, Muglich scoffed at this kind of remarks, how could there be a famine in the great Soviet Russia, and there was no Western imperialist intervention, and there was no war, how could there be a famine in a place like Ukraine, thinking about it with the normal thinking of a normal person, is this also impossible.

But this kind of rhetoric circulated widely in private, especially in journalist circles, and Muglich decided to break this lie, he applied to the Soviet government to go to Ukraine for an interview, but he was refused, and Duranti was allowed.

Muglich was curious about being a journalist, so he secretly went to Ukraine without permission.

Muglich was shocked by what he saw, because 80 percent of the peasant households did not join the collective farms, as a result, all the surplus grain and seeds in the family were robbed by the Soviets, many families were so hungry that they could not walk, lying in bed waiting for death, some people quietly slaughtered their children in order to survive, and even kindly pretended to give their son's flesh and bones to the neighbors who were dying of hunger, and the only thing the Soviet government did was to hire some hungry people to bury the dead so that the corpses of the dead would not be eaten, but these were also hungry peopleIn order to get paid for burying 200 grams of bread for a person, they did not hesitate to throw their neighbors who had not starved to death directly into the dirt pit, and many people begged them not to bury themselves and told them that they could still live.

Many times he saw others looking at him with the eyes of food, and at first he thought that these people might want food from him, but later he realized that it was not these people who wanted anything from him, but these people who directly took him as food.

Mugrich's unauthorized actions were soon discovered by the Russian government, and because of his status as a foreigner, he was sent to Moscow, where he was closely monitored.

Jones was different from Duranti and Mugrich, he was of higher status, a journalist specializing in international affairs, who traveled a lot of countries, apparently a gold medal journalist, a high-level journalist of the kind of Duanna, who came to Russia when he heard about the famine in Soviet Russia.

He was not as dedicated as Mugrich, he did not venture to the disaster area in Ukraine, but stayed in Moscow to collect all kinds of information, the reason why Jones is a gold medal reporter is because he is more capable than other reporters, he did not go to the scene, only sorted out the context of the matter from a piece of information, summed up the reasons for the famine, and deduced the scope of the famine.

Jones's position made it easier for him to publish and easily get international reprints, and the year before he published in the Western Post under the titles "The Russian Peasants' Submissiveness Is Intolerable to the British" and "The Disillusionment of the Russian Workers - Revolt Against the Five-Year Plan Caused by Food Shortages", which not only reported on the famine in Soviet Russia, but also about the peasant revolt against the Soviet Russia, but he did not know the gravity, what he did not know was that during the entire five-year plan period, the Russian peasants launched thousands of peasant uprisings, but all were bloodily suppressed.

Last year, Jones published "Is there still soup to drink?" -- Russia is facing a harsh winter in hunger", this year Jones came to Soviet Russia again, and successfully obtained the approval to go to Ukraine to cover the news, and after returning to Moscow, he happened to meet Miugrich, as a fellow countryman and colleague, the two decided to have a drink.

Jones lamented that "millions of people are probably starving to death." ”

Muglich frowned, as a left-winger, he really likes Soviet Russia, he can accept the famine caused by Soviet Russian policy, but what he can't accept is Soviet Russia's practice of covering up the truth, he has seen it himself, there are indeed people starving to death, but Soviet Russia not only denies the existence of famine, but also hypes up the harvest in Ukraine and refutes the conspiracy propaganda of Westerners.

"I saw that many villages were guarded by troops, and no peasants were allowed to enter or leave, so they starved to death in the villages?"

Muglich was very sad about what he had seen, and he did not understand that if there was a real famine, would it not be good to let these people find a way to live elsewhere, or let them go to the city to find work?

"Hey, Mugrich, Jones!"

A man walked in from a bar where foreigners frequented, saw Mugrich and Jones chatting, and greeted him from afar.

"Duranty! You're back too? ”

The person who came was Duranty, who had blonde hair and a very handsome face.

Seeing Durant Jones lower his head and quietly take a sip of wine, showing a look of disdain.

Duranti seems to be surprised, Jones is a big reporter, and he has always looked down on him, but he is also a big reporter now, and he is more famous than Jones because he has a newspaper in his hand.

"Quietly, my report was published."

In the report, Duranti admitted the famine, and he admitted that there was too much food, because the war in the east led to a shortage of Ukrainian grain, because Ukrainian grain was requisitioned to fight the war. But in general, despite the famine, the individual starvation of people, the mistakes of government policy, and the passive resistance of the peasants, the rural youth are on the side of the government, and the Kremlin is winning the victory of collectivization.

Muglich finished reading the newspaper, which was a Russian-language newspaper, apparently a Soviet one, but reprinted Duranty's article published in the New York Times.

Seeing this article, and seeing other newspaper reports, especially the article with the stamp style of "The Happiness of Ukrainian Peasants for a Great Harvest", suddenly made Muglich feel depressed, breathless and depressed.

Although he still felt that Soviet Russia was a great experiment, that Soviet Russia was a great country, he felt the horror of this brickwork, and he felt that as a journalist, he should publish the truth, even if the newspaper he worked for was a left-wing newspaper.

"You're the most outrageous liar I've ever met!"

Mugrich glared at Duranti and said.

Duranti has a good temper and is not angry: "Dear Mugrich, when have I ever cheated on you?" ”

Muglich snorted, "Then tell me, where is no one starving?" ”

Duranti laughed: "Of course someone starved to death, you and I both know it, why do you ask that." ”

"How many people are starving to death?" A million, or two million? ”

Duranti laughed, "At least two million." ”

Mugrich frowned and said, "Then why don't you expose it, why don't you report it?" ”

Duranti sighed: "Why do I want to expose, why do I want to report, it's all the Russians who died." ”

Duranti didn't care about the life and death of the Russians, not to mention that he didn't care, he was a British journalist and an American journalist, but he also had a political mission, providing intelligence services for the British, and he had already handed over the real information to the British Embassy in the Soviet Union, but the British government did not say anything about it, pretending that it had never happened at all, why?

If Russia could collapse and be destroyed, the British government would express its regret in person, and faint with laughter behind its back.

So at the official level, almost all the big countries knew that Soviet Russia was starving people to death, and they all knew how vicious the Soviet Russian system was, but none of the governments stood up to condemn it, and none of the governments expressed justice, and they all quietly, and even curried favor with Stalin, for the sole purpose of exporting their machinery and equipment to Soviet Russia, regardless of whether the money that Soviet Russia bought these machinery and equipment was obtained by robbing its own peasants of life-sustaining rations and selling them, whether it was bloody or not.

"I'm going to expose all this, I'm going to bankrupt the lie."

Muglich said hatefully.

Duranti sneered, "Does it work?" ”

Jones sighed, "It's useless. ”

Sure enough, when Muglich returned to England and published his report anonymously in the Manchester Guardian, he did not dare to use his name, because he had always supported Soviet Russia and still supports it, but he thought that Soviet Russia had made a mistake, and he was reporting on this mistake.

Muglich did not use his real name, so no one knew that he wrote the report, but the editors of the newspaper knew, but these editors were full of resentment with Mugrich, who thought that Muglich's report was exaggerated and sensational, and anyone who did not see the famine in Soviet Russia would not believe it.

Instead of letting the truth be believed, Muglich offended other editors and had problems with his livelihood.

Throughout his life, Muglich remained obscure, while Duranti won the Pulitzer Prize and had a good relationship with Soviet Russia.

It wasn't until many years after their deaths that the Pulitzer Prize in the United States began to consider whether to cancel the Duranty award, and the Ukrainian government erected a monument to Muglich and Jones, thanking them for reporting the truth about Ukraine to the world.

But none of this makes any sense, and at this moment, not many people are willing to believe the truth about Mugrich and Jones, they are more willing to believe the story woven by people like Duranty.

People are always blind because they are always willing to believe only the truth they like.

When everyone covered their eyes, it was dark. (To be continued.) )