Perhaps, it was Russia that did damage to the Ukraine first in the 1930's, then the NAZI's allies of the Russians?
"Europe refuses to remember its history. Perhaps it's because that might entail doing something to prevent history from repeating itself. The Russian "invasion" of Ukraine with the goal of the eastern Ukrainian states achieving independence and becoming part of a greater Russia is reminiscent of Hitler's grab of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938. Hitler's pretext was that German speakers in the Sudetenland wanted to be part of a greater Germany, just as Putin wants eastern Ukraine with its Russian speakers to be part of a greater Russia. And European leaders sit and twiddle their thumbs. They have even been wary of labeling Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an invasion as that might force them to act more decisively, almost afraid of displeasing Russia."
