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Remember that Russian Tsar who carried out liberal reforms and was highly popular for this, until an anarchist murdered him which caused his successor to roll it all back out of spite?

Yes, that's what they were saying. Presuming literally nothing changes (which is highly implausible), the "late Tsarist" economy gets highly similar results to Stalin's crash-course industrialisation programs. Which shows that Russian industrialisation was not the result of communism, as...

Communism in Russia - which is where all this trouble started - managed to take over because the German Empire was using it as a weapon to quickly knock Russia out of WW1.

Latter-day Communists and apologists for the USSR like to repeat the claim that Stalin, and the October Revolution in general, caused Russia's massive industrial growth in the 1930s and its status as a technological and military rival to the USA in the mid-20th century. Some have even gone so...