I hated the Ukrainians for years due to them siding with the Nazis in WWII. I did further reading and found out why they did. Their choice was to support the Germans and they might live or get starved to death by Stalin. Gives one a better appreciation of our country that we’ll never be faced with any decision like that, unless we let the the goofy socialists take over everything important. I honestly don’t know what I would have done if I were a Ukrainian at that time.
When the Germans came into Ukraine, they were initially welcomed as liberators.
Meanwhile, as noted in the Jerusalem Post:
The role of Jews in the Russian Revolution, and by extension Communism writ large, has always been a sensitive subject because antisemitic voices often painted Soviet Communism as a Jewish plot, or “Jewish Bolshevism.” When Alexander Solzhenitsyn began work on a book called 200 Years Together, he was criticized for what touching this taboo issue. His own comments to the press didn’t help the matter, claiming two-thirds of the Cheka (secret police) in Ukraine were Jewish.When Ukrainians saw that a disproportionate percentage of their Stalinist oppressors were Jewish, it may have had some impact on their relations with Jewish Ukrainians during Nazi occupation.
Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together" was never published in English, although unofficial translations are available on the internet