Do not ask what they intend to do.
Find out what they are doing.
In this way you will not try to gather grapes from thornbushes.
Vladimir Voinovich a Russian emigre quotes A.Surkov a speaker at the first congress of Soviet writers saying,
“A poet somehow or other overlooks that aspect of humanism expressed in the severe and beautiful concept of hatred”
Voinovich goes on to characterize hatred as perhaps the most important single component of humanism.
The Soviet government was the administrator of the world’s most humanist state …