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Powerpoint Presentation of
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones
Unsung Hero of Ukraine
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones
1905 – 1935
Killed in Inner Mongolia
on the eve of his 30th
birthday |
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John Hughes
1815-1889 Founder Of
Hughesovka. Now the City of Donetsk |
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Annie Gwen Jones with
Arthur
Hughes and his
family.
Hughesovka 1889 –
1892,
Annie Gwen was tutor the
Hughes children
and left Ukraine on account
of Cholera riots |
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Gareth with his mother,
Annie Gwen Jones |
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Rt. Hon David Lloyd
George, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain Gareth’s first employer.
Gareth gained
First Class Honours at Cambridge University in French, German and Russian
which he spoke fluently |
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Gareth was an expert
on Soviet affairs.
1. He was an eyewitness to the genocide-famine in
Ukraine.
2. He wrote as many as 50 articles on the problems in the USSR.
3. He lectured widely after being unable to have any more articles
published.
4. In an endeavour to promote the genocide-famine he directly or indirectly
suffered the ultimate sacrifice.
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Gareth’s Three Visits to
Ukraine and Soviet Union
1. First visit in August 1930.
Following this visit articles by Gareth were published in the London Times
entitled The Two Russias and the The Western Mail.
2.Second visit in 1931 with Jack Heinz II
Articles-The Real Russia were published in the London Times and Jack Heinz
II published Experiences in Russia-1931.
3. Third and final visit in 1933.
Articles by Gareth were in the Western Mail, The Daily Express and the
Financial News. On this occasion The Times did not publish any.
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Gareth with Jack Heinz
II
made a second visit to the
Soviet Union and Ukraine for six weeks
Jack Heinz published a small book taken from Gareth’s diaries entitled
Experiences in Russia-1931
A Diary Anonymous |
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Gareth visited a German Commune near Dneiperstroy and was told:
They sent the kulaks
away from here and it was terrible.
We heard in a letter that ninety children died on the way -
ninety children from this district.
We are all afraid of being sent away as kulaks for political
reasons. We had a letter from
one, saying they were cutting wood in Siberia.
Life was hard and there was not enough to eat.
It was forced labour!
They sent all the grain away from our village and left only 1,000
pounds. I heard that in a
village thirty versts away they came to seize the grain, and the
peasants killed three militiamen.
They wanted to have enough grain for themselves instead of
starving. The Communists then
shot sixteen peasants
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Metrovik Show Trial
The Show Trial of the Metrovick engineers from April 12th - 19th 1933 was
a manufactured act to distract
attention from the crisis of the Famine
that was devastating the Soviet Union and Ukraine. Six British Engineers and
a number of Soviet citizens were accused of ‘wilfully wrecking the Soviet
electrical industry and of plotting military espionage and bribery’. |
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The Denigration of Gareth Jones.
Duranty’s
Rebuttal
Accused of
Espionage
Gareth
wrote that he was a marked man on the black list of the O.G.P.U. and was
accused of espionagey Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Commissar for Foreign
Affairs .
The Moscow Correspondents were called upon to accuse
Gareth of lying about the Famine.
Throwing down Jones was as unpleasant a chore as fell to any of us in
years of juggling facts to please dictatorial regimes.
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On Gareth’s return from the Soviet Union he published at least 20
articles. His last article was
“Goodbye Russia” in the London Daily Express.
He lectured at the Royal Institute of International Affairs on
March 30th and he
later gave many lectures throughout Britain including
Rotary.
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German Consul from Kharkiv 0n Sunday May 28, 1933
The German Consul in Kharkoff and his wife thought that my Russian articles gave a wonderful
picture, but that it was really much worse than I described it.
Since March, it has got so much worse that it is horrible to be
in Kharkoff. So many die, ill
and beggars. They are dying off
in the villages, he said, and the spring sowing campaign is
catastrophic. The peasants have
been eating the seed. To talk of
a bumper crop, as Molotoff did, was a tragic farce, and he only said
that to keep their spirits up, but nobody believed Molotoff.
Many villages are empty.
The fate of the German colonists is terrible, in some villages 25% have
died off, and there will be more dying off until August.
In August he said there would be an epidemic of deaths, because
hungry peasants would suddenly eat so much as to kill themselves.,
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