I completely agree with your assessment, and that leads me to believe that the Ukrainians and Russians do in fact have different cultures. A lot of countries h

I completely agree with your assessment, and that leads me to believe that the Ukrainians and Russians do in fact have different cultures. A lot of countries have been hit pretty hard during 20th century, but Russians were especially cruel to their own people and I believe that cuts much deeper. For example Golodomor in Ukraine is thought of as an external act of violence of Russians / Soviets, while concentration camps, mass executions in Soviet Russia were all done by Russians to Russians.