It has been a while since Anon read the accounts of historical Ukraine but my memory is that there are many complex nuanced people groups that were treated badly there. Not negating the accuracy you stated, but the rather "why" the people groups chose to side with, or oppose, which forces. Long history shows multiple people groups make up the population of modern era Ukraine; and all have been subjected to maltreatment by forces or rulers occupying the territory. .02
Anon meant to also state it is like the population choses to take the least worst option.
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The most prominent historical figure who questioned whether the USA fought on the wrong side in World War II was General George S. Patton.Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Patton became deeply alarmed by the Soviet Union's ambitions in Europe. He strongly opposed the U.S. government's "denazification" policies and expressed the view that the Allies had defeated the wrong enemy, believing the Soviet Union was a far greater, more immediate threat to Western civilization
Looks like a corpse needing a hole to lay down in.