1. You want the government to control production of some resources.
2. Stalin controlled production of some resources
3. Stalin killed millions of people
4. Therefore, you want to kill millions of people
See here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970544 for an example that illustrates the point nicely.
When they finally made that step it did help. Incompetence caused scalpers to rise and profit while the rest suffered until the Government finally got their heads out of their asses.
Nothing about stalinism or communism in here. Just general incompetence.