Some people in Ukraine may really prefer the Russians over the EU.
In the more fortunate former Soviet republics, the locals merely bemoan the fact that a Russian family now (in 2014) lives in the house that grandpa built and had confiscated, and grandpa didn’t also get murdered. The fact that grandpa wasn’t murdered by the soviets is extra nice because he had the chance to have descendants to remember him, and tell me about the injustice.
And Ukrainians evicted the Poles and moved into Western Ukraine...S.O.P. in that part of the world for centuries.
There’s been injustice on both sides. Life on the shtetl was so great either. Somewhere, the pogroms, the bloodletting and the persecutions need to stop. Ukraine, I think, is more complicated. It’s hard to know who the good guys and the bad guys are if there are any.