You know what else is funny?

If your parents or grandparents were murdered in cold blood by SS forces or killed by the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe or kidnapped to work as forced laborers in the German Reich (which happened to about 3 million Soviet teenagers mostly from the occupied Ukraine) during the Nazi invasion that cost at least 20 million lives in the Soviet Union, you may not be fond of anything collaborationist to this day (such as the Ukrainian right wing parties that are now in power and hang portraits of the wartime collaborationist leader in city hall). People are funny that way.

Meanwhile, here's the reality on the Russian/Ukrainian split: it's a game for hardline minorities on either "side." The majority of the country speaks Russian more than Ukrainian. The last thing they need is to create a bunch of new ethnic animosity, just as the banksters and the Troika move in for the economic kill shot.