Stalin and Leshanko

As the worst famine in Russian history starts to really bite, Stalin calls on both Vavilov and Leshanko to offer solutions. The new farming system didn't work or was he actually changing? It's partly that you're just fucking with sort of the way things have been done forever by forcing people on the collective farms. But there's also, there was enough food that they could have stopped mass numbers of people from dying but they refused to hand it over.