> again, the kulaks were offered market price which the market price was influenced by the same kulaks. literally, allowing them to sell produce at price they set and instead the destroy it when the kulaks were offered. so again the insane commie cope is the "cruel tyrant peasant farmers all decided to burn all the food they sold for a living rather than sell it for the money they need at the price they set" - that is ridiculous. no, it's that communism doesn't work and everywhere it's tried it creates shortages and famines. you can also tell because the "solution" stalin had, collectivisation, made everything worse and was eventually abandoned after years of miserable failure.  > the ussr after a few short years went on to export very large volumes of grain around the world  for a couple of short years, 1931-32, while there was a massive famine at home. the ussr then immediately reverted to being the world's largest food importer and stayed that way forever. khruschev gambled his leadership on the virgin lands project, another stupid attempt to try to become food self-sufficient, and it failed. > so it was the neoliberal reforms in the 1980s those were acts of desperation to get anything happening as the food production shortage became a crisis. the ussr sold oil out of a godawful inefficient oil industry and used the foreign exchange generated to buy grain because they couldn't grow enough. in the 1980s the price of oil collapsed, leaving the ussr without the money to pay for the grain they needed to prevent another famine. then they had to go ask for a bailout from the capitalists
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