I support Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, not in that “I’m going tro put a flag on my social media profile and call everyone I disagree with a Putin-bot” way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And not in the “let’s risk World War 3” over a squabble over an ethnically mixed border area (although it’s worth noting that many of those areas are only “ethnically mixed” because the Soviets deported the natives to SIberia and replaced them with Russians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was, in fact, supporting a free and independent Ukraine back when most Democrats were saying “The USSR is here for good, get over it, wingnut”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among other reasons, because Ukraine has within its living memory this episode, the Holodomor<\/em>, whose formal memorial took place last weekend<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One reason is that the Holodomor has been buried from the beginning \u2014 and not just by its perpetrators. New York Times<\/em> journalist Walter Duranty, a Soviet sympathizer based in Moscow during the 1920s and 1930s, infamously claimed<\/a> that \u201cthere is no famine.\u201d Worse, the Moscow bureau chief led a foreign press corps campaign to discredit Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who reported<\/a> the atrocities in March 1933. (Jones\u2019 heroic attempt to reveal the genocide was depicted in the award-winning 2019 film Mr. Jones<\/em><\/a>.) Despite his deceit, Duranty would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize, even though the Times <\/em>later conceded<\/a> that his articles were \u201csome of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.\u201d There continues to be a worldwide effort to revoke his unearned Pulitzer via an online petition<\/a> initiated by the Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness campaign. (READ MORE: Mr. Jones: A True Story of the Holodomor<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n