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>Food market was effectively liberalised
No it's not.
Food supply was continued by state centralized purchases at State set prices and distributed through state owned and operated retail network. Exactly as Stalin ordered.

>why do you think there were sudden food shortages across the country?
Because Soveit agrarian sector was in deep dive of mismanagement and on top of that oil prices crashed and USSR run out of foreign currency to bail out Stalin's kolhozes with food imports.