русские и не русские московиты - организаторы Голодомора - Голодомор..... "Живі..." |
русские и не русские московиты - организаторы Голодомора - Голодомор..... "Живі..."
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Фільм «Живі» (англ. Living) (2008) Сергія Буковського здобув Гран-прі Міжнародного північно-південного медіафоруму в Женеві. Історико-документальна картина поєднала дві сюжетні лінії.
Перша — це свідчення майже трьох десятків свідків Голодомору.
Друга лінія розповідає історію британського журналіста Гарета Джонса, випускника Кембриджського університету та радника колишнього прем'єр-міністра Сполученого Королівства Дейвіда Ллойда Джорджа.
Він готував для світової громадськості справжні факти про масштаби Великого голоду, за що його було депортовано до Москви енкаведистами.
«Живі» — тому що фільм про живих, тих, хто зумів вижити і залишитись людиною. Він про мертвих, але живих в нашій пам'яті та історії.
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Gareth Jones
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones | |
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13 August 1905 Barry, Vale of Glamorgan |
Died | 12 August 1935 (aged 29) |
Nationality | Welsh |
Occupation | Journalist |
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www.garethjones.org |
http://www.garethjones.org/german_articles/german_articles.htm
http://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/soviet_articles.htm
http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%90%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%81
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/jul/06/bbc4-ukraine
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Friday 6 July 2012 13.59 BST
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It is so frustrating to watch a TV documentary that is so poorly produced that it doesn't do justice to its subject.
That was the case last night in BBC4's Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones, the remarkable and intriguing story of Gareth Jones, a journalist who was murdered in mysterious circumstances in China in 1935.
When I spotted that the programme was coming up, and not knowing a thing about Jones, I consulted the Wikipedia entry about him.
It revealed that in 1933, while working for Lloyd George, he travelled to Russia and the Ukraine and discovered that Stalin's collectivisation policy had created a famine (in which 10m were to die). He witnessed horrific scenes of starvation.
But Jones's truth-telling, eye-witness report was disowned by Lloyd George, ignored by other politicians and derided by most of the rest of the media (it was published only in the Manchester Guardian and the now-defunct New York Evening Post).
Worst of all, the substance of his report was disputed by the New York Times's Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty under the pro-Soviet headline "Russians hungry, but not starving." (And Wikipedia is good on Duranty's duplicity too).
So a man who told the truth - which emerged many years later, after Stalin's death - suffered from the political desire in Britain and the US not to rock the Soviet boat.
Banned from Russia, Jones travelled to Japan in late 1934 and then China, eventually arriving in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia along with a German journalist. They were kidnapped by bandits who demanded a ransom for Jones but released the German.
According to the Wikipedia profile, the bandits shot Jones on the eve of his 30th birthday. It adds: "There were strong suspicions that Jones' murder was engineered by the Soviet NKVD, as revenge for the embarrassment he had previously caused the Soviet regime."
So, with all that information on board, I looked forward to the documentary to cast light on Jones's adventures. Well, it did that - but one had to concentrate very hard while putting up with an over-long programme and an absurd hammy narration.
It failed to relate the story, built around rich material from Jones's diaries and notebooks, in a straightforward fashion.
It turned out that Jones, aside from being an aide to Lloyd George, also worked as a journalist for The Times, The Economist and the Western Mail. And he also operated on behalf of British intelligence.
He shared a flight with Hitler, had dinner with Goebbels, got close to Stalin's foreign affairs ambassador Maxim Litvinov and also managed to meet William Randolph Hearst at both his Welsh and Californian castles.
As for the manner of his death, there was no conclusive proof. But the programme did reveal that the Chinese contact who loaned Jones and the German "journalist", Muller, a car to travel to Inner Mongolia was definitely an NKVD agent. And Muller was probably one as well.
Anyway, it is a terrific story. Evidently, Jones is regarded as a hero in the Ukraine. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit for his exceptional services to the country and its people. Sadly, the documentary omitted to tell us that.
See reviews in The Guardian here, the Daily Telegraph here and The Independenthere.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/waleshistory/2010/03/gareth_jones_investigative_journalist.html
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Post categories: History, Past Master, Places, Radio
Phil Carradice | 15:35 UK time, Friday, 19 March 2010
These days we live in a world of investigative journalism - much of it not very palatable. But back in the 1930s, when the term hadn't even been invented, one Welshman used his pen to expose what was, in effect, a holocaust of major proportions.
The man in question was Gareth Jones, a young journalist from Barry, and the manmade disaster he wrote about was the famine in the Ukraine.
"He was a brilliant student," says historian Patrick Wright. "He got a 1st in French at Cambridge and taught himself Russian. When he left University he worked as a journalist and as Secretary toLloyd George.
He visited Germany regularly but Russia, where his mother had once lived, was where he really wanted to go." In the late 1920s this was not possible - it was barely 10 years since the Communists had killed the Czar and relations between western powers and the Soviet Union were, to say the least, frosty.
However, in 1930 a diplomatic thaw gave Gareth his chance and over the next four years he made three visits to the Soviet Union. What he saw horrified him.
With his knowledge of Russian, Gareth was able to get off the beaten path and look at people and places no other westerner possibly could. He roamed the country, met the people and saw for himself that Stalin's wonderful "new world," particularly in the Ukraine, was very far from ideal. Murder, mass deportation, burning of farms, deprivation of essential food and medical aid, Gareth Jones witnessed it all.
On his return he wrote about the conditions of the Ukraine, where the persecution of the people eventually resulted in ten million deaths - state directed genocide on a massive scale.
Stalin and his government were not best pleased and banned him from the country. Even many western journalists howled him down. Men like Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Duranty, desperate to maintain his good relations with the Soviet Union, wrote "There is no death from starvation in the Ukraine - but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition."
Gareth Jones did not back down in the face of this criticism. He was determined that the world should hear about the famine that had taken, and would continue to take, so many lives. And his journalistic career continued unabated. He went to America and was a spectator to the great Depression. Then he travelled to report on events in Germany where he actually flew in the same plane as Adolf Hitler.
"If this aeroplane should crash," he wrote, "the whole history of Europe would be changed. For a few feet away sits Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany and leader of the most volcanic nationalist awakening the world has ever seen - - - He does not look impressive. His handshake was firm, but his large outstanding eyes seemed emotionless as he greeted me."
Sadly, Gareth himself did not have long left to live. His curiosity in world events next took him to China.
He travelled to Inner Mongolia. And here, on the eve of his 30th birthday, he was captured by bandits and killed.
Gareth Jones. (Image provided by www.margaretcolley.co.uk)
It was a troubled time in this part of the world and there is no doubt that Chinese leaders knew what Gareth had uncovered in Russia. Whether or not his death was politically motivated will probably never be known - and if it was, who or what was the moving force behind the murder?
The story of Gareth Jones is told on Past Master, Sunday 21 March, 2pm, BBC Radio Wales.
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http://www.benybont.co.uk/moreword/arc/arc22-23.htm
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Stray Thoughts Archive (22-23)
No. 22 - Would have appeared in Cambrensis issue 68, November, 2006, if not for the magazine's sad closure.
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Comment number1.
At 15:17 21st Mar 2010, Noreen wrote:Reading the blog on Gareth Jones and then listening to the Past Master programme, you realise that huge diversity and range of unsung Welsh heroes. Gareth Jones, the journalist from Barry, is a clssic example and deserves to be remembered not just by his fellow countrymen but also by Britain as a whole.
More is known about the likes of Lord Haw Haw, who tried to belittle Britain, than this remarkably brave young man. Gareth Jones wasn't trying to run down anybody, just trying expose some of the attrocities happening at the time.
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At 19:11 29th Mar 2010, mcolley242 wrote:This blog by Phil Carradice is a great complement to the young Welsh journalist, my uncle, Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones. His death was so premature and it has been my ambition to have him remembered in Wales. Thank you Phil for your article praising him. To read more about Gareth visit my website www.margaretcolley.co.uk
Margaret Siriol
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At 16:58 31st Mar 2010, Phil wrote:Your uncle Gareth Jones really is an unremembered hero of Wales. When I think about what he achieved in his tragically short life it saddens me - what might he have done had he lived? But then, being the sort of man he was, he'd probably have put himself in the firing line in the Spanish Civil War - and again in WW2. Whether or not he would have survived those conflicts is mer conjecture. Investigative journalists have a lot to learn from people like Gareth.
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At 14:42 4th Apr 2010, Raymond wrote:Gareth Jones is also a relative of mine, though a lot more distant in my case than in Siriol Colley's. I appreciate all that she and Phil say about him. As I said in my STRAY THOUGHTS back in 2005, it's hard to imagine any of today's local journalists emulating the 'Hero of the Ukraine'. Anyway, it's good to see Gareth Jones remembered in this way. Well done, Phil. You can see my comment (together with more irreverent ones) on the STRAY THOUGHTS ARCHIVE http://www.benybont.co.uk/moreword/arc/arc22-23.htm
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At 13:53 28th Apr 2010, Peter wrote:Driving in to work this morning listening to the World Service, I caught the last 5 minutes or so of a reading from Gareth Jones' account of travels in the Ukraine in the 1930's. It wasn't until the credit at the end that I realized who the author was. My grandparents lived next door to Gareth Jones' mother in Barry and growing up all I ever knew about him was that he was a correspondent who had been kidnapped and murdered by Chinese bandits shortly before WWII. I never appreciated the kind of journalist he was until now. Thank you.
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