Anarchists, liberals, and right wingers often lie about the famine calling it unquestionably genocide, even though there is NO consensus even among super mainstream (liberal) scholars

Kotkin, the foremost mainstream Western Stalin scholar today doesn't think it was on purpose:

Just between February and July 1933, he signed or countenanced nearly three dozen small allocations of food aid to the countryside, primarily to the North Caucasus and Ukraine, as well as the Kazakh lands (which necessitated sharp reductions in the bread rations for city dwellers, many of whom were put on the brink of starvation). All of these actions were woefully insufficient for avoiding the mass starvation in the countryside caused by his policies, in the face of challenging natural conditions. Still, these actions do not indicate that he was trying to exterminate peasants or ethnic Ukrainians. In the Kazakh autonomous republic, probably between 35 and 40 percent of the titular nation—as compared with 8 to 9 percent of Slavs there—perished from starvation or disease, not because the regime targeted Kazakhs by ethnicity, but because regime policy there consisted of forced denomadization. Similarly, there was no “Ukrainian” famine; the famine was Soviet.

• Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin

One of the first and most famous Western historians to propagate the genocide narrative is Robert Conquest, who literally worked for British intelligence "propaganda counter-offensive"...