>>22313519Yes, we had to industrialize rapidly via morally dubious means.
Marx himself didn't believe in Communist revolution in Russia because it requires thick capitalist class sitting on a huge pile of industrial power.
Russia was agrarian country, so we had to catch up AFTER the revolution.
First Lenin wanted to do NEP, but then there'd be no use of the party so Stalin wrapped it up and went full wartime Communism with collectivization and industrialization.
