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The New York Times and Joseph Stalin Before there was Judith Miller, deceiving the American public in  The New York Times  about life-and-death matters of great import to America, there was Walter Duranty.  Duranty, the  New York Times  correspondent to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, was actually awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his series of reports that essentially covered up Stalin's artificial, genocidal famine visited upon the people of the Ukraine.  Duranty's reports from Russia were very influential.  If they were not largely responsible for the extremely pro-Soviet policy of the Roosevelt administration, from initial recognition in 1934, to the dragging out of the Pacific war until the Soviet Union could get involved against Japan, to the secret Yalta Agreement concessions, they at least provided public-relations cover for what the heavily Communist-infiltrated Roosevelt government had already decided to do. [Walter Duranty] was held in such esteem that t