I would not be surprised if the Holodomor were a factor in anti-Russian sentiment. Then there was the decade-long suppression of Ukrainian partisan fighters after WWII, along with the associated massacres (~200K dead). The Soviet-era official narrative obviously papered over the historical unpleasantries, but these things have a way of coming to the surface during periods of international tension. I expect ethnic Ukrainians - including Russian speakers - who had little knowledge of the atrocities are now getting an eye-opening education.
"The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, "Extermination by hunger") was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the "Terror-Famine in Ukraine", millions of citizens of Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine and several other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials varied greatly; anywhere from 1.8 to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians were said to have perished as a result of the famine."
From HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER?:
"Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked. But there is a larger lesson to be learned from this horrendous sacrifice to one ideology. That is that no one can be trusted with power. The more power the center has to impose the beliefs of an ideological or religious elite or impose the whims of a dictator, the more likely human lives are to be sacrificed."
And the kids and Marxist professors think communism is cool. . If you don't know history. . .
Fight for Freedom, in the Ukraine and the USA!