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 1934 Ukraine Famine Articles (from Unknown Propaganda Source)

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The [London] Daily Express - 6, 7 & 8, August 1934.

With Photos Claimed to be Taken by Correspondent's Own Camera, but are Quite Clearly of 'Dubious' Origin...

N.B. The provenance of these  'famine' photos linked below is neither claimed nor implied by the Gareth Jones website and are shown for comparative academic research & discussion purposes only.

On the 6, 7 & 8th August 1934, The [London] Daily Express ran a series of three articles by a 'Special Correspondent' who in 1934 allegedly 'broke away from a conducted tour to see the conditions for himself' and then after a few days seems to have made his way back from Ukraine to the Metropole Hotel in Moscow to rejoin his party without being questioned and then was permitted to leave the Soviet Union unsearched and thus departed with his undiscovered rolls of film!

These articles, but mainly the photos are reproduced in full and are intended to be seen in conjunction with all of Ammende's photos which can be also found on this site (and eventually Hearst's 1935 bogus 'Thomas Walker's' articles for which I hope to transcribe a yet incomplete set of copies).

There are two issues for discussion here, one is the original provenance of the photos (and from many of the captions to the photos, it is clear they could not have been taken by a 'passer-by' tourist) and the other is to discover an identity as to the author of these 'fictitious' articles and also the organisation or power who used them for propaganda purposes (whether it be the Nazi's, the Soviets {so as to later expose them if necessary as fraudulent as they did with Thomas Walker's late February /early March 1935 articles for Hearst, though  these Daily Express specific articles were not exposed at the time} or  quite possibly German Religious Aid Charities (through Dr Ewald Ammende and Dr. Dittloff, who were in Whitehall, London seeking governmental support in July 1934)?

N.B . Three photos from this Daily Express series have already been identified as having been inserted into Ammende's  English version of his book, "Human Life in Russia" which was published after his premature death in 1936, in which provenance was attributed to Dr. Dittloff's own camera, but certainly two of which (My Ref No.s: DE-6/8/1934#1 & DE-7/8/1934#1) appear to have been taken in the 1921 famine and therefore could not have been taken by Dittloff, himself!.

N.B. All of the photos from the Daily Express 6th August 1934, appeared within Thomas Walker's fraudulent article in the Hearst Press on the 25th February 1935, entitled; "Six Million Perish in Soviet Famine.".[Click Here for External Link]

Finally, informed readers of this site are kindly requested to post their constructive comments for discussion...

Daily Express - 6th August 1934 "The Horror of the Ukraine"
Picture Ref.	Click on Thumbnails below for larger images.	Caption	Notes
DE-6/8/1934#top		"The Horror of the Ukraine" --- 'Starved Men and Horses Dead on the Roadside." --- "Left Foodless by Moscow's Swoop on Crops."	It is my aim to transcribe this article in due course, but if anyone does it in the interim, then please send me a copy for inclusion or add it to the discussion form below. [N.B. - You may need to save these larger photos to disk and open it with any photo editor to read the text]
DE-6/8/1934#btm		N/A - Bottom of Article
DE-6/8/1934#1		Caption: "Secret camera's evidence. [Top] Dead and dying horses near the collective farm at Belgorod. Their owners begged for them. but were ordered from the farm at pistol point. [Left] The boy is weeping. He stands near the body of his father, who was shot in his presence on the Belgorod farm because, during a grain-picking round of the yard, he approached too close to prohibited territory. The body was left where it fell."	* Comments: A copy of this photo on left appears in Ammende's 1936  'Human Life in Russia" in the Frontispiece - CLICK HERE to cross-reference. It also appears in the Hearst Press on February 25th 1935, in Thomas Walker's bogus articles.  [CLCK HERE for an external Link - as awaiting copies of the original for website inclusion.]
DE-6/8/1934#2			* Comments: The photo of the weeping boy with father on left also appears on 25th February 1935 in the Hearst Press in Thomas Walker's bogus articles  [CLCK HERE for an external Link - as awaiting copies of the original for website inclusion.]
DE-6/8/1934#3		Caption: "Starving, he crept into the wagon to sleep. He never awakened."	* Comments: The photo of cart on left also appears on 25th February 1935 in the Hearst Press in Thomas Walker's bogus articles  [CLCK HERE for an external Link - as awaiting copies of the original for website inclusion.]
DE-6/8/1934#4		Caption: "They pick in the dust for fallen grain - a special privilege. Peasant women on the Belgorod farm."	* Comments: The photo of woman on left also appears on 25th February 1935 in the Hearst Press in Thomas Walker's bogus articles  [CLCK HERE for an external Link - as awaiting copies of the original for website inclusion.]

Daily Express - 7th August 1934 "Starving Ukraine"
Picture Ref.	Click on Thumbnails below for larger images.	Caption	Notes
DE-7/8/1934#top		"Starving Ukraine" --- 'Field as Dumping Ground for Victims of the Famine'. --- 'Tragic Journey's end for Former Oxford Man'.	It is my aim to transcribe this article in due course, but if anyone does it in the interim, then please send me a copy for inclusion or add it to the discussion form below. [N.B. - You may need to save the larger photo to disk and open it with any photo editor to read the text]
DE-7/8/1934#btm		N/A - Bottom of Article
DE-7/8/1934#1		Caption: "Carrying all her possessions under her arm, a despairing mother plods along with her small son in search of food".	* Comments: A mirror image copy of this photo appears in Ammende's 1936  'Human Life in Russia" Facing Page 63 - CLICK HERE to cross-reference.
DE-7/8/1934#2		Caption: "The two boys (top picture) have found treasure - twenty potatoes. G.P.U. agents, searching for hoarded food, discovered fourteen potatoes in the hut of an old peasant woman - "obviously pretty" - whose body was among those on the dumping ground."
DE-7/8/1934#3			* Comments: An un-cropped copy of this photo on left appears in Ammende's 1936  'Human Life in Russia" Facing Page 129 - CLICK HERE to cross-reference.
DE-7/8/1934#4		Caption: "They pick in the dust for fallen grain - a special privilege. Peasant women on the Belgorod farm."	* Comments: The photo of a child on left also appears on 4th  March 1935 in the Hearst Press in Thomas Walker's bogus articles  [CLICK HERE]

Daily Express - 8th August 1934 "Ukraine Village Wiped Out"
Picture Ref.	Click on Thumbnails below for larger images.	Caption	Notes
DE-8/8/1934#top		"Ukraine Village Wiped Out" --- 'Famine Worse Next Autumn' ---. 'No Medical Aid'.	It is my aim to transcribe this article in due course, but if anyone does it in the interim, then please send me a copy for inclusion or add it to the discussion form below. [N.B. - You may need to save the larger photo to disk and open it with any photo editor to read the text]
DE-8/8/1934#btm		N/A - Bottom of Article
DE-8/8/1934#1/2		Caption: "(Left) He has spent two of the last four years in prison... wonders where his next meal is coming from. (Right) His parents starved to death in order that he might live... But life has nothing to offer him."	* Comments: The photo on far left also appears on 6th March 1935 in the Hearst Press in Thomas Walker's bogus articles. N.B. The Hearst caption ist remarkably similar: "This typical peasant of the Ukraine spent two years in jail, suffering untold tortures and since his release has been fighting starvation."

To cross-reference these photos with Walker's articles for Hearst, please CLICK HERE

To cross-reference these photos with Ammende's Muss Russland Hungern?, please CLICK HERE

Click here for a discussion hypothesis over whether Walker was in fact a Soviet Patsy rather than a Hearst Stooge?

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