But, as we see with the eventual attainment of power by their intellectual heirs, the Leninists, those weren’t actually the things they wanted. What they desired, above all, was unrestrained power over other human beings. The fate of the Ukrainian Kulak class was in no small part a revenge on them for their intransigent reluctance to support and take part in the histrionics of the intellectual class that went out into the countryside to proselytize for the glories of nihilistic revolution.

Smartest thing you can do, when presented with these social wreckers? Follow the three precepts: Shoot, shovel, and shut up. Offering them shelter and succor is tantamount to signing your own death warrant. I remember hearing stories about the peasantry of the Ukraine having sheltered varied revolutionaries against the Tsar, only to have those same psychotic assholes show up running the operations resulting in the Holodomor. When the fanatic comes to your door, begging for shelter? Do not make the mistake of thinking they will remember you with kindness in future years.

There are Yazidi I have met, who sheltered their neighbors from Saddam, only to have those neighbors turn on them when ISIS came calling. They would no doubt speak similar wisdom, having paid the same harsh tuition that the peasants of the Ukraine did earlier.