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=What Was The World Reaction? CK= Western governments knew little about the famine because of Walter Duranty, the English reporter stationed in the American embassy at Russia. Duranty did such a great job at covering up the Genocide, that no one bothered to stray off the path set throughout Ukraine for reporters to follow. Malcolm Muggeridge, reporting of the atrocities occurring in Soviet Ukraine, stationed in Moscow, defied Soviet authorities by taking documents and taking pictures of the bodies. He called Walter Duranty "the greatest liar of any journalist that I have met in 50 years." Initially, he was a communist sympathizer sent to Moscow for the Manchester Guardian. When he heard of the famine, Muggeridge took a train to Ukraine. He saw for himself the famine unfolding and sent his reports back to Britain. The Guardian, printed them. Muggeridge returned to Britain to find himself in disfavour with the socialist elite and unable to find a job**.** A good source regarding the famine is the British archives. "Britain ...was the first European nation to establish diplomatic relations with Moscow after the revolution, London and Berlin knew more about the situation than any other Western government.'' Britain also kept silent about the famine-genocide to not disrupt trade with Soviet Russia.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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