Post 4, World Responce

            The world always reacts to things that happen. An example would be the batman shooting in Colorado (I do believe that is the place), or the shooting at the kindergarten, or an outbreak of swine flu, and so on, and so on, etc. Stalin’s forced famine is no different than the rest of these things.

            “Back in Moscow, six British engineers working in the Soviet Union were arrested and charged with sabotage, espionage and bribery, and threatened with the death penalty. The sensational show trial that followed was actually a cynical ruse to deflect the attention of foreign journalists from the famine. Journalists were warned they would be shut out of the trial completely if they wrote news stories about the famine. Most of the foreign press corp yielded to the Soviet demand and either didn't cover the famine or wrote stories sympathetic to the official Soviet propaganda line that it didn't exist. Among those was Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Walter Duranty of the New York Times who sent one dispatch stating ‘...all talk of famine now is ridiculous.’ Outside the Soviet Union, governments of the West adopted a passive attitude toward the famine, although most of them had become aware of the true suffering in the Ukraine through confidential diplomatic channels. In November 1933, the United States, under its new president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, even chose to formally recognized Stalin's Communist government and also negotiated a sweeping new trade agreement. The following year, the pattern of denial in the West culminated with the admission of the Soviet Union into the League of Nations. (Stalin’s Forced Famine 1932 – 1933)” this shows that though people knew about the famine, even though some did nothing at all. In all honesty, if you see something that is wrong, try to fix it, even if it is something small, try to do something about it, you just might make a difference in someone’s life.