Tavish McGuire

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5 Year Plans
Stalin introduced the Five-Year Plan with hopes to move USSR in the direction of a more pure
communist model. This meant having agriculture and industrial production goals that had to be met.
This allowed Stalin to establish a competitive industrial economy, as well as a stabilized government in
the USSR.
The human cost of the Five-Year Plan included the second biggest mass starvation in history, as well as
the countless executions and exiles for the rebellious Kulaks. His aggressive and relentless policies
made industrial productivity and food growth at the cost of people dieing. Famine tore the USSR apart,
furthering the traumatizing experience that many had been through within Stalin's reign.