Happy Birthday, Gareth Jones
Tonight's episode is coming out soon! We're putting on the finishing touches, but first, we have a special celebration of a fearless soul.
Historian Timothy Snyder's international bestseller Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin opens with the story of Gareth Jones, the young Welsh journalist who risked his life and career to bear witness to the Holodomor—Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. This terror famine claimed the lives of around five million people, the vast majority in Ukraine, where Putin's war today builds on its brutal legacy.
Today, August 13th, would have been Gareth…
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