Margaret West - will present the story of Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones was an investigative journalist who told the world about Stalin’s 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine in which millions perished.

Our presenter, Margaret West, is from Rhayader, mid-Wales and is now a journalist based in Washington DC, and a founding producer of NPR’s "Talk of the Nation”. On the foreign desk, she edited reports from Russia and Europe.

The Zoom presentation, hosted by WSWNE, is a fascinating look at the life and work of Gareth Jones, using amongst other sources, his diaries that he left behind in Wales. Many Western journalists knew about the famine but none filed reports in their on names or recorded from first-hand observations. Jones’ veracity was challenged by Soviet authorities and by Walter Duranty, a celebrated New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief. Were it not for Jones, the world would not have known the extent of the suffering until much later and he is honored for his truthful and courageous work. Duranty is viewed as a shameful apologist for Stalin.

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