The Soviet Terror Famine in the 1930s killed at least 10 million Ukrainians. The Soviets took ANYTHING that could be food, along with all the crops. Dogs, deer, anything that could be eaten.
Also, it was long a practice to ‘resettle’ people far away from their homes. Besides the starvation, the Soviets moved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians far away from the Ukraine, and installed Russians in their Ukrainian homes and cities. That way, in 10, 20, 50 years Russia could ‘claim’ they were only protecting Russians when they invaded again.
Look up The Soviet Terror Famine by Robert conquest
Funny how Stalin acting a lot like Hitler, especially favoring ethnic Russians, and encouraging Russian Nationalism, even though he was Georgian, himself.
What about the Ukrainians and Polls the Russians killed when they were allegedly fighting the Germans back?
That might be good, because look what they did to Poles a decade later.
The Institute of National Remembrance estimates that 100,000 Poles were killed by the Ukrainian nationalists (40,000–60,000 victims in Volhynia, 30,000–40,000 in Eastern Galicia and at least 4,000 in Lesser Poland, including up to 2,000 in the Chełm region).[2] For Eastern Galicia, other estimates range between 20,000 and 25,000,[142] 25,000 and 30,000–40,000.[111] Niall Ferguson estimated the total number of Polish victims in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia to be between 60,000 and 80,000,[143] G. Rossolinski-Liebe: 70,000–100,000,...
Attacks on Poles during the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were marked with extreme sadism and brutality. Rape, torture and mutilation were commonplace. Poles were burned alive, flayed, impaled, crucified, disembowelled, dismembered and beheaded. Women were gang raped and had their breasts sliced off, children were hacked to pieces with axes, babies were impaled on bayonets and pitchforks or bashed against trees.
The atrocities were carried out indiscriminately and without restraint. The victims, regardless of their age or gender, were routinely tortured to death. Norman Davies in No Simple Victory gives a short but shocking description of the massacres:
Villages were torched. Roman Catholic priests were axed or crucified. Churches were burned with all their parishioners. Isolated farms were attacked by gangs carrying pitchforks and kitchen knives. Throats were cut. Pregnant women were bayoneted. Children were cut in two. Men were ambushed in the field and led away. The perpetrators could not determine the province’s future. But at least they could determine that it would be a future without Poles.[118]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia