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Gareth Jones (1905-1935) was the first Western journalist to describe the Soviet Ukrainian famine - the Holodomor - as a man-made famine. At the age of 27, he undertook a journey on foot through the Soviet countryside, crossing alone from Russia into Ukraine in March of 1933. By then, the Soviet regime had imposed a ban on foreign journalists traveling to areas affected by famine.

For reporting what he had witnessed firsthand in Ukraine, Jones was attacked by Walter Duranty, the Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times and accused of espionage by the Soviet authorities.

Duranty wrote an article on March 31, 1933, entitled “Russians are hungry but not starving,” to which Gareth responded in The New York Times: “Wherever I was in Russian villages, I heard the moan, ‘No bread, we are dying.’”

Jones was murdered in Inner Mongolia under suspicious circumstances by Chinese bandits on August 12, 1935, the day before his 30th birthday.

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