Most statistics I could find showed the USSR had modest economic growth during the interwar period. The famine was seemingly intentionally inflicted to speed industrialization which makes it evil rather than incompetence. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviet-economy-1917-1991-its-...

I mean you send millions of farmers to factories and yes farm output declines, these things are related.

I don't see anything in your link to claim that the famine was intentionally inflicted.

For a country trying to rapidly industrialize, redirecting available labour from farming to factories and hoping that your productivity increases will make up for the reduced labour supply seems like it could be a good faith best effort to uplift the lives of as many people as possible as quickly as possible. Sitting back and letting the economy continue to be agrarian means passively killing many people through lack of access to medicines etc..

Nothing good can come from getting into this conversation. I'm pretty sure there are one or two countries that would imprison you just for posting this.

This wasn’t redirecting available labor, it was forcing people off farms without any offsetting attempt to increase efficiency.