I had one of them tell me that the Russians were the victims in the Holodomor. Hey, they’re the victims now again. Ukraine is picking on Putin.
It’s surprising that Russia still exists, despite being surrounded by such powerful neighbors as Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia . . . .
When the communist government, whose leader was not Russian, starved peasants and farmers who refused to collectivize, it happened accross the Soviet Union. Ukraine was particularly hard hit because it’s an agricultural area, but Russia was hard hit as well. There was no attempt to target Ukrainians as an ethnic group distinct from Russians, as you seem to think.