here's another order from lenin taken from random in which he tries to save people from starving immediately arrest kogan a member of the kursk central purchasing board for refusing to help 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 lenin the man behind the mask