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Plus it's questionable if the whole thing was avoidable anyway. What with the country being stuck in a long and bloody war between 1914 and 1923 that devastated the grain yielding western provinces and lead to the deaths of huge swaths of the young men who were supposed to be planting and harvesting them. So the question is honestly not just how mismanaged everything was (although mismanagement is not in question) but what was left to mismanage to begin with.But he even wasn't in full power until 1935 and the government ordered to stop the grain exports when informed about the extent of the famine. So how much it is his (and other big bosses in Moscow) overal policy fault and how much is locals implementation fault is arguable. Read some modern research, not just some old Cold war era propaganda BS.
Really the whole thing is just a horrible bloody mess with too many contributing factors to be blamed solely on any one man. Kind of like everything in history.