The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

by Erin Litteken

Everyone wants Ukraine’s fertile soil for their own, and nobody wants to let Ukrainians rule it.”

There was no question now that there was food available to eat. The state had just decided the villagers weren’t worthy of eating it.

“Well, the famine was covered up pretty much until the Soviet Union fell, and there are still people who insist it never happened,” Nick said. “Stalin put on a good show, made collectivization sound great, and the press and his allies either bought it or ignored it. Some even lied. Walter Duranty, from the New York Times, completely refuted that a famine was happening. Hell, he won a Pulitzer for his articles on it. Nobody wanted to believe the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ was being starved to death.”

Duranty, from the New York Times, completely refuted that a famine was happening. Hell, he won a Pulitzer for his articles on it.