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Here's another order from Lenin, taken from random, in which he tries to save 120 people from starving:

""Immediately arrest Kogan, a member of the Kursk Central Purchasing Board, for refusing to help 120 starving workers from Moscow and sending them away empty handed. This to be published in the newspapers and by leaflet, so that all employees of the central purchasing boards and food organizations should know that formal and bureacratic attitudes to help starving workers will earn severe reprisals, up to and including shooting."" (Quoted from Ronald Clark (1988) Lenin: the Man Behind the Mask: 383)  "