Why didn't he stop extracting grain from Ukraine and Kazakhstan

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Grain was about the only thing Russia could actually export at the time. USSR was hit with heavy embargoes due to being commie and all of that. So Stalin decided that supporting the economy and kickstarting the industrialization was more important than lives of those people.

>>1912162

When people in the country are hungry, they just starve.

When people in the cities are hungry, they riot and burn things.

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Why didn't the starving peasants just use eagles to go to the cities?

>>1912272
That's a really great point.

The countryside was also never really down with communist ideology, whereas Russia's cities were radically leftist since even before 1905.

Pissing off city folk could drastically reduce support for the Soviet government and destroy the legitimacy of the regime.

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>>1912162
[citation needed]
He did the exact opposite. He send food for Uckraine and Kazakhstan from other parts of the USSR

>>1912920
[citation needed]

>>1912262
What types of economic embargos were they under at the time?

Tankies excusing Stalin's atrocities with "muh imperialist encirclement" annoys the fuck out of me, but to what extent was the Soviet Union a pariah State in the 30s?

>>1912943
[Gulag needed]