b in your reporting of the USSR" ("Spiking the Ukrainian Famine, Again" 34). It is largely because of journalists like these, who choose to overlook the truth in the interest of advancing their careers, that the horror of the Ukrainian genocide has been hidden for so many years.To rectify "slanderous fabrications circulated by bourgeois propaganda," the Soviet government invited foreign correspondents and political figures to visit select Ukrainian cities (Altman 47). It was made certain, however, that the visitors saw only what the government wanted them to see. The cities they visited were cleaned of the dead and starving peasants who were replaced with healthy Russian citizens (Altman 47). False representations such as these also contributed to the diluted conceptions of the tragedy.The Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 was designed by the Soviet government with the intention of eradicating the strong-willed, independent people of the Ukraine who posed a threat to Russian domination in the Soviet Union. While the former Soviets still insist that the famine was unanticipated, it is impossible to disguise the systemized murder of millions of innocent people. "Perhaps the most distressing lesson of Stalin's Ukrainian famine is that even great crimes against humanity can happen again if the world ignores or denies them" ("Denying the Terror Famine" 5)....
