The movie tells a little-known story. In 1933, an ambitious young Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones, traveled to the Soviet Union and discovered the appalling reality of the myth of communist utopia. From this he began a regular news investigation, but trying to dig out the truth about the Ukrainian famine under the cover of the government quickly became a life-and-death exploration. His efforts were not only thwarted by the Soviet censorship, but also by Western journalists who had a good impression of the Stalin regime. The most famous of these was Walter Duranty, the editor-in-chief of the Moscow branch of the New York Times. In real life, Jones was the first reporter to report on the Great Famine of the Soviet Union of 1932-1933 in Western media. But because many intellectuals were sympathetic to the Soviet regime, his reports were not welcome. Duranti, who concealed the facts of the Great Famine at the time, also drew criticism afterwards. The Pulitzer Prize he won for his continued coverage of the Soviet Union was also called by The New York Times as "we are ashamed of it but can explain it." "An award.
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