Father Edmund Walsh, American Hero

And one you've likely never heard of, thanks to our unbiased media:

What Walsh saw in the new Soviet Union stunned him. The new government was using the famine as an excuse to loot churches and arrest clergy. In 1922 twenty-eight bishops and over 1,200 priests were murdered or executed. In his diary of May 1922, Walsh saw the future. Russia wasn't in trouble, he wrote -- the world was. He expressed "fear for the consequences in the economic, the political, the social, the religious, and educational orders of the entire world." Communism was "the most reactionary and savage school of thought known to history," bringing with it a "reign of terror that makes the French Revolution insignificant." After all, he reasoned, the French Revolution was limited to France. The Bolsheviks envisioned "World Revolution, or in other words, universal Socialism with its concomitants -- no state, no government, no belief in God, no marriages, no religion or in a word, the total destruction of the present Christian civilization and the substitution of the Communist state."

By 1923, the relief mission was feeding 158,000 Russians a day. But this didn't stop the religious purges. For most of the early 1920s the Russian Orthodox Church had been the target, but in 1923 the Bolsheviks turned their attention to the Catholic Church. On March 3, 1923, troops in Petrograd arrested the archbishop and fourteen priests. They were sent to Moscow to stand trial before the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal. Walsh complained bitterly about the show trials. Two of the clergy, including the Polish Vicar-General, Monsignor Constantine Budkiewicz, were sentenced to death, the others to extended prison sentences. Walsh returned home in 1924, and spent the next three decades sounding the alarm about communism.

If Edmund Walsh had been a Nazi fighter or civil right activist, there would be a shelf of biographies about him available -- not to mention films made about his life. But he only fought famine, was a Washington celebrity, and for three decades warned the world about communism, so the elites in Hollywood, the publishers, and the media have no use for him.

Duranty brought The Times awards for lying about the very famine Walsh and other brave men fought, awards the Paper of Record savor to this day.

Funny how the Times haven't changed, no?