I AGREEthat under Nazi control atrocities occured in Ukraine.
However, these inportant facts regarding Ukraine must NOT be forgotten. Immediately following the overthrow of the czar in February 1917, Ukraine set up a provisional government and proclaimed itself a republic within the structure of a federated Russia. After Vladimir Lenin and his radical Bolsheviks rose to power in November, Ukraine—like Finland—took further step, declaring its complete independence from Russia in January 1918.
In Ukraine, some of the most important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, began in the territory of modern Ukraine. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes the third-largest in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world.
In the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920), was declared a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. At that time, the Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status.
YIDDISH was declared a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency in this same period, between 1917 and 1920. Before World War II, slightly less than one-third of Ukraine’s urban population consisted of Jews; they were the largest national minority in Ukraine.
In 1941, by the end of November, VIRTUALLY ALL OF UKRAINE UNDER NAZI CONTROL! the Nazis sought to implement their “racial” policies. Mass killings of Jews began in the fall of 1941 the that continued through 1944.
Ukraine rates the 4th in the number of people recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Holocaust.
With respect, the memorial notes individuals. not nations per se.
https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/statistics.html
From the Yad Vashem page: "Names and Numbers of Righteous Among the Nations - per Country & Ethnic Origin, as of January 1, 2021. The numbers of Righteous are not necessarily an indication of the actual number of rescuers in each country, but reflect the cases that were made available to Yad Vashem."
Poland, which was home to extermination camps. is listed as with more rescuers than those of any other nation.
In the political dialogue, I try to be cautious about "nation" versus "people," especially when someone like a Biden, Obama or Clinton (to choose obvious asses) purports to tell us what "we" as Americans collectively think or believe.