Walter Duranty

Walter Duranty was a British-American journalist and the Moscow correspondent for The New York Times during the 1930s. He is infamous for his reporting on the Soviet Union, which downplayed the severity of the famine in Ukraine and other atrocities committed under Stalin's regime. His controversial articles, which often portrayed the Soviet state in a favorable light, earned him a Pulitzer Prize, but later came under scrutiny for their misleading nature and complicity in obfuscating the truth about the Soviet government's brutal policies.