There’s a great movie out called, I think, Mr. Jones.
It’s about an English reporter.
He goes to the Soviet Union in the 1930s because the Soviet Union is building like crazy while the rest of the world is dormant from The Depression.
He finds that Stalin is starving the Ukrainians so that he can sell their grain for cash and then use the money to build.
The Holodomor (sp?).
The Soviet Union was turning out massive amounts of armaments.
“Uncle Joe” did the same thing with the masses sent to the Gulag.
Many of them were worked to death in the Kolyma goldfields, again to raise foreign cash to fund his industrialization program.