H. G. Wells’ interview with Stalin (1934)
Not one mention of the terrible famine in the Ukraine which had occurred over the two previous years.<p>As Malcolm Muggeridge wrote, initially a supporter of the Soviets until he witnessed what their policies actually meant as a correspondent for the Guardian in Moscow:<p><i>"The novelty of this particular famine, what made it so diabolical, is that it was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind, ... without any consideration whatever of the consequences in human suffering"</i>