It was a failure because the quotas set by the government
was idealistic. Given the time frame,
its goals to achieve industrialization would take more than just five
years. It would actually take decades to
attain that goal. It would require time
to train people to get to that level if industrialization. Apart from that, their program of collective
farming would produce more crops and subsidize other programs and projects had
opposite effect. It only led to the
disruption of the food supply and caused famine in the country.
