Amazon Prime: Mr. Jones

[g5000]

Mr. Jones is a movie about the attempts by journalist Gareth Jones to bring the Ukrainian famine to the attention of the world.

For those who are unaware of the Holodomor, read this:

Holodomor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Joseph Stalin's crimes were aided and abetted by New York Times reporter Walter Duranty. Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for his glowing reports of Stalin and life in the Soviet Union. He was a Holodomor denier, and calls have been made in modern times to revoke his Pulitzer, but the committee has refused to do so.

There are some pretty shocking moments in this film. They captured the realism of a famine.

Well worth watching.

 

[1srelluc]

Holodomor larping?

Well it has the virtue of never being done before.....I'd watch.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

You won't see much press on this holocaust.

Or the Armenians...

Wonder why?

 

[Flopper]

Mr. Jones is a movie about the attempts by journalist Gareth Jones to bring the Ukrainian famine to the attention of the world.

For those who are unaware of the Holodomor, read this:

Holodomor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Joseph Stalin's crimes were aided and abetted by New York Times reporter Walter Duranty. Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for his glowing reports of Stalin and life in the Soviet Union. He was a Holodomor denier, and calls have been made in modern times to revoke his Pulitzer, but the committee has refused to do so.

There are some pretty shocking moments in this film. They captured the realism of a famine.

Well worth watching.

The Ukrainian people suffered in the 20th century mightily first under Stalin and then Hitler. In the 60's and 70's they suffered due to the dissident movements and then Chernobyl and then civil war. The history of sufferings of the Ukrainian people has made them tough which is why Russia is not going to just roll over them as they planned. They will fight on and on because that is what they have been doing for a hundred years.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Gareth Jones = Great Welshman.

 

[Robert Urbanek]

Just say this on a DVD from the library. The movie is a reminder that Putin is following Stalin’s playbook of doublethink, the arrest of foreigners on trumped up charges, the brutalization of the people of Ukraine, and his expectation that many in the West would rather look way from his atrocities.

 

[whoisit]

We watched it a couple months ago, good movie about bad people. From what I read, some of which are still in Ukraine.