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and nicholas II was building factories as well. only his attempts didn't destroy agriculture, cause famines, ruin cultures, disappear people who couldn't meat unrealistic goals, or focus on making raw materials for the sake of making raw materials.

i didn't say nicholas industrialized russia, i said he was building factories, slowly but undeniably. secondly, his famine was caused by natural disasters, not lysenkoism and the destruction of agrarian workers way of life. one was natural, one was man made. to even suggest that stalin's f**k ups when it came to the famines weren't his fault is ridiculous.

and his first two five years plans? those were to stop an invasion? that's interesting because they happened well before barbarossa when there was no one to fight. much of the heavy industry stalin was attempting to gear the economy towards WAS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS TO FIX THE DESTRUCTION HE CAUSED. of course this is before the war, which really transformed the soviet economy, but again, any nation would have fared as well. the US for example? that's not to say that stalin's idiocy and megalomania didn't almost lose them the war. between the purges and countering his offcers ideas constantly it's amazing hitler didn't push right into moscow.