. >> you bring up walter duranti of "the new york times." what soviet state declared war on the country, rounded upry, millions of people and tortured eople, tortured them, shot them confiscated their seed. it was a comprehensive assault on the pess apts, an irony you might think, because the soviets presented themselves as the champions of workers and peasants, they made war on the pleasants, and there was a war orchestrated by lennon and continued with stalin and walter duranti was the correspondent for "the new york times." there were not that many foreign correspondents in russia at the time, but he was one of the most important, and he was accepteding back these reports of, you know, and it was later wrote about, about granaries bursting with grains and everything being wonderful and h.d. wells went there and said everything was terrific and in point of fact this horror was going on and duranti won -- there were rumors about the famine and duranti's reporting made many fair-minded people believe that the rumors were false and in fact th