"The novelty of this particular famine, what made it so diabolical, is that it was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind, ... without any consideration whatever of the consequences in human suffering," Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge, the Manchester Guardian's Moscow Correspondent during the period of the famine was, along with Gareth Jones, one of the journalists who honestly reported on the famine. . He had, however, like Jones made an unauthorised visit to the areas affected by the famine and witnessed starving peasants. His reports were smuggled out of the Soviet Union in a diplomatic bag.
Jones would pay the ultimate price and be silenced and murdered for his honesty. Muggeridge paid a lesser but still significant price for his honesty. He was sacked by the paper and forced to leave Moscow. The memory of what he saw would haunt him for the rest of his life. Perhaps the best way to understand the affect that the famine had on him is to read his own words in an interview with Marko Carrynnyk and to see and hear him speak in the video "Harvest of Despair".