It's more that the collapse was particularly painful for Poles and Lithuanians. Incidentally, it is around that time that Ukraine got under Russian hegemony to

It's more that the collapse was particularly painful for Poles and Lithuanians. Incidentally, it is around that time that Ukraine got under Russian hegemony too. Not that Ukraine got a good deal under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmelnytsky_Uprising