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Mr. Jones

He takes the train from Moscow to Kharkov in the Ukraine in March 1933. He gets off the train at a small station and walks through the country to see for himself what a famine is like. It's not safe to talk about what happened, and everyone he meets is a henchman of the Soviet secret service. They're all trying to keep the public from hearing about it. Stalin's policy of forcing farmers to collect their land has led to misery and ruin. It's like killing a lot of people. Jones is helped by Ada Brooks, a New York Times reporter, who helps him spread the shocking news in the West. This puts his powerful rival, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, pro-Stalin journalist Walter Duranty, in his place.

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