Briton revealed the horrors of the Holodomor in Ukraine: the local government - the most severe of all possible world Gareth Jones, at the time worked for the British advisor to the Minister of International Affairs, from 1930 s to 1933 s visited Ukraine several times while investigating the Soviet industrialization development. He became one of the key figures disclosed criminal consequences of the famine in Ukraine. Gareth Jones, lived not long life: it is 1935 s, his 30 th birthday on the eve of the uncertain circumstances, he was shot in Mongolia local thugs. Soviet intelligence archives he billed as a spy was captured several of his contacts with the Trotskyites opposition leaders. He freely spoke 6 languages, Russian - perfectly. However, Mr Jones was officially named as the British delegated soviet industrialization advisor. Adviser to the Minister as he has coordinated machinery and equipment deliveries to the Soviet construction. Most often he visited eastern Ukraine, where the company took care of the British coal mines and train repair shop equipment. G. Jones for the first time in the Soviet Union came to 1930. And his first recordings were as follows: Local government - the most severe of all possible world. Peasants hate Juzovka Communist ... the first day I was able to find only one white bread, that was my whole days food. However, many workers did not even bread, and was too weak to work. 1931 s it together with one British spy performs a 6-week tour of the industrialized construction of the Soviet Union (as well as the Urals and Siberia). Based on the experiences of this journey he wrote the book The experience in Russia - 1931: Love (a book you can read in English by clicking on the link). S In January 1933, after having to write another book he again went to inspect the Soviet Union. And again came to the east of Ukraine - Juzovką. In his diary the following peasant quotes: There is no bread. We eat bread for five months. Many people die. Disappeared and potatoes. Animals die. And there are no horses. How will close in the spring? G. Jones and submit a classified Soviet statistics: before 1933 Summer in Ukraine died 20 percent. peasants, fell 85 percent. livestock. Kharkiv and Donetsk he sees people dying in the streets. Do not pick up the corpses of 2-3 days. Holodomor in Ukraine 1932-1933 he also watched the first, relatively soft, Stalins repressions. 100 thousand. Ukrainian Communist Party members were removed from her. Old Bolsheviks, seeing what was going on - the destruction of Lenin points the way, shoting . The old engineer, accusing them of spying, arresting, - he writes. On arrival in Britain, G. Jones, using contacts in the government, organize large-scale media campaign, telling about the Soviet Union, the piece hunger. Later this campaign explained not so much the desire to show the horrors of the Soviet Union as a way to force the Soviet authorities to stop the joint projects with German companies. For example, the Manchester Guardian was a headline: Russia included hunger, millions die and New York Times: I have heard the cries: There is no bread, we we die! USSR launched its offensive. 6 British engineers who worked on the Metro-Vickers, was accused of spying and planted in the Lubyanka. Were extracted from their official statements that everything writes Gareth Jones - lie. Mr Jones was accused of espionage and his name ended up coming to the black list of the Soviet Union. In addition, the New York Times provides a propaganda publication titled The Russians are hungry, but starved, which attempts to deny the information provided by Mr Jones. Russian and foreign observers do not see any signs of a catastrophe, - the article assured the representatives of the Kremlin. Mr Jones, after just a few weeks in the same New York Times published a reasoned response, based on his own research and the available documents. The British governments decision to G. Jones was moved to Mongolia, where the possibilities studied Japanese attack on China or the Soviet Union and Chinas potential conflict of Siberia. 1935 s he is killed under mysterious circumstances. It is known that in order to receive a ransom was abducted Mongolian bandits, states that a ransom was paid and the man was released, but it does not reach the house - was shot on the way. Due to the active man suspected of killing activity diplomat falls on a lot of things: Chinese, Russian NKVD, Mongolian, Japanese, even the British themselves.
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