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Published by The New York Times
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
To the Editor:
Re "Times Should Lose Pulitzer From 30's, Consultant Says" (news article,
Oct. 23):
The international campaign to have Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize either
revoked or returned was initiated by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties
Association. Our initiative has never been aimed at "airbrushing" Mr.
Duranty out of history.
On the contrary, we insist on remembering him for what he truly was,
Stalin's apologist and a shill who helped cover up the genocidal Great
Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine. We just don't want Mr. Duranty to be
distinguished with a Pulitzer Prize for having so served the Soviets. Nor
should anyone else.
LUBOMYR LUCIUK
Toronto, Oct. 23, 2003
The writer is director of research, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties
Association.
To the Editor:
Re "Times Should Lose Pulitzer From 30's, Consultant Says" (news article,
Oct. 23):
Walter Duranty, of course, was far from alone in misreporting Stalin's
crimes and failures during the early 1930's. Rescinding his Pulitzer Prize,
however, is precisely the same sort of appalling abuse of the historical
record that Mr. Duranty himself and the Soviet regime were guilty of. We're
lucky enough to be able to acknowledge and live with our blunders.
JUSTIN KAPLAN
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 23, 2003
The New York Times, New York, New York, October 28, 2003
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