There is a strain of pan-Slavism that points to Russia as protector of the Slavs, and Ukraine as the definition of treachery. Oh, that is rich. Ukrainians are the traitors while Russians are protecting Slavs? Russians are now spiritual protectors? Hilarious.
Stalin said to a journalist just after the WW2 Tehran conference that it was high time the Slavs dominated Europe for a change.
Stalin wasn’t a slav. Joseph Dugashvilli. A Georgian. P.s. Stalin had an odd way of ambulating. Normally people stride left arm/right leg etc. But he strode left arm/left leg. Weird