chapotraphouse

There was a long struggle between Great Russian and the "Little Russian" that stems from the post-Napoleonic rise of nationalism. Thats why Lenin made the Ukrainian SSR so big in the first place, he wanted to reverse the cultural politics by the Tsar. Modern Ukrainian nationalism which radiated outwards from former Austrian-controlled Galicia is different kind of beast though.

I mean, I don't think you can deny post the collapse of the USSR, at lot of Ukrainians have embraced anti-Russian attitudes. Sure a lot of that is manufactured by the west, but it's still there. And yes there is some anti-Ukrainian sentiment amongst Russians as well, even if you can argue some of that is justified by Ukrainian Nazi collaboration.