Right, that's why Ukrainians are fighting so ferociously against Putin's invasion a year later, because most of them are "Russians". Unbelievable
The USSR (Stalin) moved a lot of ‘native’ people around to stifle dissent. For example, many Tartars from Crimea, many Cossacks from Ukraine and Volga area. The descendants have no more forgotten their native lands then the Jews have forgotten theirs.