Did you know that the international communists who took over Russia, overwhelmingly were not ethnic Russians? They hated Russians, they hated Christians, they killed ethnic Russians without remorse.
Did you know that ethnic Russians fought fiercely against the Communists? You know there was a civil war? You think Russians are to blame for what communists did? They were victimized by communists in the millions.
Whoa there pilgrim, slow down there! Yes, I knew there were two revolutions in 1917. I knew there was a civil war. I even knew about American intervention in Siberia in 1918.
The Russian Soviet Republic was the dominant entity in the USSR. Stalin ran that state, and in turn the whole country. He wasn’t replacing the Ukrainian language in schools with Georgian.
The Ukrainians nevertheless blame the Russians. The single greatest reason why there is a Ukraine today is probably this event, embedded in folk memory. There is no getting around it.
Beating on the Ukrainians some more won’t change anything. Its like beating a man on the head with hammers in order to change his mind.