The New York Times and Walter Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for Duranty's Holodomor-denying reports. (Skew York Slimes!)
I'm not "objective" wrt Stalin era doings. My Volga German Grandparents left Russia in the first decade of the 20th Century, knowing how things were likely to go. My Grandmother's brother were in the Russian Army, and stayed. Communication from them to my Grandparents went silent in the late 1920s. They might have been killed because of ties to the Czar ("formers" - their regiment had been his bodyguard). They might have been killed because they were the sons of land-owning farmers ("sons of kulaks"). They might have been killed because of their German ancestry. They might have simply returned to their home area in the Ukraine, gotten on with life, and died in the Holodomor. My Grandmother never heard what happened to them. It was only in reading Gulag Archipelago that I learned of the possibilities I listed.