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[[Walter Duranty]], who served as its Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936, has been criticized for a series of stories in 1931 on the [[Soviet Union]] and won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at that time; however, he has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly [[Holodomor]], a famine in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s in which he summarized Russian propaganda, and the ''Times'' published, as fact: "Conditions are bad, but there is no famine".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXLhwVJvfXMC&q=The+food+shortage+which+has+affected+almost+the+whole+population+in+the+last+year%2C+and+particularly+in+the+grain-producing+provinces&pg=PA573 |title=Assignment in Utopia |last=Lyons |first=Eugene |publisher=Greenwood Press Reprint |access-date= April 23, 2012|isbn=978-1-4128-1760-8 |year=1938|page=573 }}</ref><ref name="ConqRav">Conquest, R. <u>Reflections on a Ravaged Century</u>. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. 2000. pp 123,156 </ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jQcPAQAAMAAJ "The Foreign Office and the famine: British documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932–1933"]. Studies in East European nationalisms. p209.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Starvation of Ukraine by Moscow in 1921 and 1933|last=Oreletsky |first=Vasyl |publisher=Ukrainian Review (London) |year=1963|page=18-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-ukrainian-man-made-famine-1932-1933|title = The Ukrainian Man-Made Famine of 1932-1933 &#124; Wilson Center}}</ref>