The origins of Ukrainian gigantomania.
March 23, 2022.
"In the Soviet Union there were several ethnic groups that were very anti-Soviet - these were the Crimean Tatars, who lost their autonomy due to the very difficult ethnic situation in Crimea, these were the Chechens and the Ingush, whom Stalin expelled from the Caucasus (and they are very vindictive and predatory with Ukrainians), and these were subject to the Ukrainians from the Western world in the Ukraine, and these were subject to the Ukrainians from the world. The annexation of Galicia and the support of Hitler were many Galicians, one could say that the affected peoples of the Soviet Union consisted of 90% of Galicia for some reason, all these peoples identified the Soviet power with the power of the Russians - including because this was explained to them in the West.
Even in the Baltic states the situation was different. The Balts, especially the Latvians, played a huge role in the October Revolution and until the purges of the 1930s led the number of communists per capita. There was resistance, but not at the level of "if something happens, I'll take a machine gun and go into the forest." But even if you take the Baltic states into account, the Ukrainians still won. At the same time, it cannot be said that there was an insurmountable split between western and eastern Ukraine. From the very beginning, the Bolsheviks relied, among other things, on Westerners in their Ukraine, and Khrushchev's wife, for example, was a Westerner.
Due to the scale of Ukraine and the dominant role of Ukrainians among the titular nations, Kyiv has, to one degree or another, positioned itself as the second capital of the Soviet Union, as evidenced by its magnificent Soviet architecture. The megalomania of Kiev was comical, because precisely because of its proximity to the central government, everything that could move left Kiev for Moscow and Leningrad, the atmosphere in Kiev was very provincial, but the word cannot be deleted from the song.
The Ukrainians were used to dominating the Russians and wanted to take a dominant position in Moscow.