"I had to ask who are these people? They're evil," he says. "You can recognize them by their deeds, the atrocities they commit against other people." His father's family was very human, but his grandfather and grandmother were sold out in favor of communist ideology for political gain; it took Poland five decades to get rid of socialism. The West needs to be careful about dismissing threats from people just because we don't like them: Putin is a well-versed threat that will not go away.