In ancient times the northernmost region of the habitable world - hence, any distant, unknown or mysterious land.
posted by Aussiegirl @ 11:37 PM
I am a naturalized Ukrainian-American, fortunate enough to have been admitted to this great land as an immigrant. My personal history is the spur for this blog. My parents lived through the Ukrainian Genocidal Famine of 1933, survived years of Communist persecution, fled to the West, endured forced labor in Nazi Germany, and following liberation, ended up in Allied internment camps fighting forced repatriation to the Soviet Union under the Yalta Agreement. Their courageous struggle to bring our family to freedom, first to Australia, then to America, and their example of unflinching faithfulness to truth and honor, have left an indelible impression on me. My parents did not save me from Communism and Nazism for me to go gently into dhimmitude or slavery. Hence my passion and my mission to expose threats to freedom and democracy wherever they are found. This blog is a testament to their courage and my small gift to their heroism. ***ADDENDUM*** Aussiegirl, my wife, Helen, passed away on January 13, 2007. I shall continue her blog to allow access to her archives.***David
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I agree that it is a "bloodstained Pulitzer" that was rewarded to certainly one of the most reprehensible people ever to call himself a "journalist". For a short description of Stalin's artifical famine and the part Duranty played in it--and also to learn about Duranty's polar opposite, Malcolm Muggeridge, who reported the truth of the horrors he had witnessed--read this short article: Drug addict, sexual predator on both sexes and apologist for Stalin, British reporter Walter Duranty. Finally, from this same article, if you can stomach it, here is the Pulitzer Board's pusillanimous reason for not withdrawing the reward: Sig Gissler of the Pulitzer Board said that the prize was given for a story unconnected with the famine. Stalin would have been proud of such fineness of character and firmness of resolve.
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