Holodomor
Media reports on famine. XIII
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH – The October 7 issue of the Post-Gazette ran a lengthy, front-page article on the Great Famine in Ukraine by staffer Bohdan Hodiak. Headlined “‘Hidden’ famine in Ukraine killed millions,” the article was accompanied by a page one photograph of a young girl holding her horribly emaciated brother. “The artificial famine, which will be commemorated in Pittsburgh this weekend, has been described as the crime of the century which few have ever heard of, and, as the only large-scale humanly engineered famine in history,” wrote Mr. Hodiak. He said that, according to British Sovietologist Robert Conquest, as many as 14 million people may have died as a result of the famine. “While Ukrainians were starving, the Soviet Union was exporting grain, and the Soviet leadership was denying any famine existed, as it still denies it occurred today,” Mr. Hodiak said.