Attracted to communism,
Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster) traveled to Russia as a journalist in the 1930's. He ended up writing about Stalin's famine in the Ukraine and Black Sea area that starved about 10 million people to death in less than two years. As a result, he lost employment and started writing novels.
On the other hand, Walter Duranty, writing for the New York Times, wrote a series of articles that denied that a famine even existed. For such work, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Muggeridge later called Walter Duranty "
the greatest liar I have met in journalism".
In 2008, two years after his death, on the 75th anniversary of the famine, he (and Gareth Jones) were awarded the Ukrainian Order of Freedom.