Hearted Youtube comments on Vladimir Brovkin (@vladimirbrovkin4052) channel.
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Sir,
starting from the end, I have the following comments on your statement.
1. The elections under the supervision of Russian troops in Crimea after 2014 are, in my opinion, a propaganda exercise and not a reliable source of information on ethnic preferences.
2. The statement that the Soviet Union was not Russia reminds me of the argument of modern Germans that the German Reich was founded by a mysterious tribe of Nazis that probably came from the moon... => The Soviet Union was in a political sense the successor to imperial Russia.
3. Stalin's repressions were directed against various ethnic groups, exactly as the tsars did according to the old principle of divide and rule. In this sense, it was about the annihilation of Ukrainian identity.
It's a pity that you don't mention the attempt to create a Ukrainian state by the Germans and Austrians during World War I to protect themselves against a possible Polish rebellion. Stalin consciously destroyed Ukrainian separatism even before World War II.
4. The statement that the hatred of Ukrainians towards Poles is the source of Ukrainian identity is, in my opinion, justified. Unfortunately, you missed an important point. Ukrainian identity - written literature, etc., was created in the 19th century when western Ukraine was under the rule of the Habsburgs and the east was controlled by the tsars. The Habsburgs took advantage of ethnic differences to control the area, much like the tsars in Russia. Hence the pogroms that took place
inspired by these monarchies and probably a Ukrainian identity based on hatred towards neighbors or ethnic minorities.
5. Summary. The greatest influence on the creation of the current Ukrainian identity had the Habsburgs in the 19th century and later the Germans = mysterious Nazis through the creation of the Ukrainian state during World War I and cooperation with Ukrainians during World War II.
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