The Western media have a nasty habit of whitewashing Russia’s Soviet past. During the Winter Olympics in Sochi, many American journalists glorified the U.S.S.R’s Communist legacy while downplaying or ignoring the horrors that defined it.

Something similar is happening in the media’s coverage of the conflict in Ukraine. The crisis has dominated headlines for more than four months. But few reporters have provided historical context to the fraught relationship between Ukraine and Russia. In particular, the famine engineered by Stalin’s Russia against the Ukrainian people in the early 1930s has rarely been mentioned, much less explained. 

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