“Everywhere was the cry, 'There is no bread.  We are dying'. This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus, Central Asia… even twenty miles away from Moscow there was no bread."  Gareth Jones 1933

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"Finished? Not finished!" True then, still true today! Banner carried by students from China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学), May 27th, 1989, near #Tiananmen Square, Beijing, just days before Deng Xiaoping's Communist Party massacred so many of China's still chained people. Photo by Philip Colley.

བོད TIBET 藏 - "Human Rights, Freedom, Democracy" - མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་, རང་དབང, དམངས་གཙོ - 人权, 自由, 民主. A Tibetan demonstrator marches past the Beijing Hotel, Chang An Avenue on May 27th, 1989 as part of the student democracy demonstrations, brutally crushed days later by PLA troops in what is often known as the Tiananmen Massacre. The Tibetan word བོད and the Chinese character 藏 (rather than the culturally imperialistic 西藏, 'West Tibet') are used in the protestor's banner. བོད and 藏 refer to Greater Tibet made up of the Tibetan provinces of Ü-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham, all still under occupation by Tibet's neighbour China since its illegal invasion in 1950. In the 8th century the Tibetan Empire extended far into Chinese territory, even briefly occupying the Tang capital Chang'an (modern-day Xian) in 763. In 821/822 CE a peace treaty was signed between Tibet and China agreeing the borders between the two countries. The agreement was carved bilingually in stone and can still be seen on a pillar in front of Lhasa's Jokhang Temple. Photo by Philip Colley.

Students marching peacefully past the Gate of Heavenly Peace, and its portrait of Mao Zedong, on May 27th 1989 just days before the People's Liberation Army massacred hundreds, possibly thousands, of Beijing citizens on the approaches to Tiananmen Square on June 4th. The banner has the Chinese characters 中央民族大学 (Central Minorities Institute) as well scripts in Mongolian, Korean, Arabic and Tibetan. Photo by Phil Colley.

"Freedom, Democracy, Equality". Tibetan students from the "Beijing Minorities Institute" calling for freedom and an end to Chinese Apartheid in Tibet. Previously unseen photo, taken by Philip Colley on May 27th near Tiananmen Square just days before Chinese PLA troops gunned down countless Beijing citizens on June 4th, 1989.

RT @BlankReportCard: @mossrobeson__ @GarethJonesSoc Amazing interview!

No, not at all, not least as the concept of 'Banderite' didn't really come into existence 'til 1940/41. In my understanding, they were good Ukrainians who, like so many others in the Soviet Union, were murdered or caused to die in acts of great injustice at the hands of Stalin and the Bolshevik Party, and who deserve to be remembered as such. They certainly weren't ethno-nationalists belonging to a genocidal cult who deserve only infamy.

@szalnayaimpera1 @mossrobeson__ Спасибо. Ты слишком добр!

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“I don’t care whom I work for - landowner or communist, English, German, Austrian [or] Polish, as long as I get enough to eat.” Ukrainian peasant to Gareth Jones. near Kozacha Lopan, Kharkov Oblast, March 12th, 1933

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They knew, and know. But they don't want to know. I am an inconvenient relative shining a light on the inconvenient truth about Gareth Jones' famine testimony i.e. that it fits in more with the Russian narrative than the Ukrainian one. That's why they had to make the fictional film nonsense 'Mr Jones'. That's why Ukrainian ultra-nationalists have threatened me and tried to shut me up and why Welsh politicians, with whom they appear to be in league, pressured the editors of to withdraw from publishing my article of 25/10/24 (link below). If only Gareth hadn't reported on famine in other areas of the USSR, and it being caused by collectivisation and peasant resistance, he would be perfect for Ukrainain nationalist political purposes. Unfortunately, he did. But why let the truth get in the way of a good, war-fuelling propaganda story...

Perhaps the biggest scandal is the deception around the killing of the so-called "Heavenly Hundred" which lead to Yanukovych's downfall - and the disaster that has subsequently befallen Ukraine. Ukrainians and the wider world were lead to believe the demonstrators were killed by Ukrainian police. In fact they were killed in a 'false flag' act by Right Sector snipers from their 'own side', as has been clearly evidenced in Ivan Katchanovski's 'everyone must read' exposé, free here...

"The misery in the United States is making the people say, “We must live for ourselves alone.  We must plan our national life.” As a result America in the last few months has made many steps towards a kind of Fascism." Gareth Jones, The Western Mail,  June 14th, 1933

"The capitalist system seems to be on the brink of a precipice. Nationalists have run rampant in all countries, waving their banners of cheap patriotism. Everywhere the cry has been, ‘‘Put up more tariffs,’’ and the world became tariff mad. "Pile up your armament" shriek others and the armies of the world mount in size and attacking power." Gareth Jones, April 11th 1933

Sanyslaviv is today's Ivano-Frankivsk. Anyone know if there's still an Adolf Hitler Square there?

If you have conclusive evidence of who murdered Gareth, what is it please? I have been looking into the matter since at least 1985, when the PRO records were released, and actually there is none. Occam's razor would imply it was probably the frustrated, opium-addicted bandits who held him hostage for over two weeks in hope of a ransom. If it was a 'famine expsure revenge killing' it would have happened immediately. Why risk rescue? The British embassy warned him under no circumstance to visit the area he did because it was infested with bandits. He thought he was untouchable and took a risk too far. It has suited the Banderite myth-makers, such as Chalupa and Luciuk, who have 'kidnapped' him in life to dupe the easily dupable that it was "the Russians". Just as with the Bolshevik famine, and the causes of this war, they have been quite successful in that. But as with much of their self-destructive, self-defeating attempt to rewrite history in order to demonise Russia, it is, most probably, nonsense. As Gareth warned, nationalism is a folly that brings disaster to the nations it leads astray. Pity poor Ukraine

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