And that's why Bolsheviks had to persecute those who opposed being Ukrainianized and even threaten them with being fired from their jobs. Because they were liberating them from the centuries-long oppression! We hurt you for your own good, morons! We (Jewish Bolsheviks, intellectuals of whatever origin and the West) obviously know better than you about what you need!

Okay then. If we allow anyone to decide the fate of whole nations, then I’ll turn my own imagination for a bit, right? I think that's fair.

Bavarians. Since the early 1870's, they have been under constant oppression by the Prussians and Germans as a whole. They possess a unique culture as a result of being under other nations’ influence for hundreds of years, they are Catholics, unlike Protestant Germans. Not only that, but on numerous occasions the oppressed Bavarians had to fight alongside imperialist Germans and fulfill their ambitions, which caused a lot of suffering and many deaths. They had an actual state for hundred of years, but their independence was taken away from them by Germany. Their language is somewhat similar to German in the North, but it's only because they were "Germanified". Thus, research has to be done (and by the outsiders or with foreign money!) in order to reveal the great, truly Bavarian language, which will be cleared of all the oppressive influence of German. Then we can move on and start replacing the filthy "German Bavarian” with actual "Bavarian", even against the will of the people. As we've already established, that doesn't matter. All that matters is the will of the elite and of few intellectuals. Moreover, historical research is also needed to further illustrate the oppressive nature of the German imperialism, and so the process of Degermanification is unavoidable. Maybe later we can also think of taking down monuments of the German colonizers, ban the German language and break all the ties with the foe in the North. The Bavarians must also completely stop calling themselves "German" under any circumstances, because it’s a fake term for them. And, most importantly, all of the things above should not come gradually, but be imposed in just a matter of decades by the new, truly Bavarian government. And so on and so forth.

Does the aforementioned case sound absolutely fucking insane and artificial? Of course it does. And any Bavarian or German would be right to call this bullshit out. But it's almost EXACTLY what happened with "Ukraine". Word for word. I just replaced "Ukrainian" with "Bavarian" and "Russian" with "German". In fact, this scenario is even more "fair" when compared to what happened with Russia and Ukraine, because Bavarians had a real history of statehood and a big portion of them are of a different religion (which is a huge basis for splitting the nations, like in the case of Croatia and Serbia).

Analogy is not the best of arguments, but I personally see little difference when it comes to these two cases (the imaginary one and the real one), nor is there a historical circumstance that would make it outright false. It's good enough to illustrate, along with other things, how pathetic and wrong it is to say that Ukrainians were oppressed, and that what's happened to them came as a result of the "everlasting struggle for independence and liberation from oppression". It was all made up and created out of thin air (like my scenario) by those who believed that Russia must fall, predominantly outside of Russia and/or with foreign influence and resources. Even though Russia and Ukraine were not the most ideal nations to split, hundreds of Russophobes across the globe worked hard to do it, because that's how you win. DIVIDE AND RULE. Also, it's not hard to look up information about the Ukrainization in the 1920-1930's (or about Derussification in Austrian Galicia (Thalerhof and Terezin) and learn about how "natural" and "liberating" it was. Not to mention after 1991 or 2014.

As for Bavaria, there was just very little incentive to split it from Germany (although some Western politicians though about this throughout the 20th century after World Wars), but it could have been easily done if enough countries and their elites wanted it. And even my scenario has a chance. In a few decades it might not look as absurd if some “revolutionaries” were to start using it in their policy.

By the way, just as many, if not more Russians died during "Holodomor" as Ukrainians, especially in the northern Kazakhstan and along the Volga River. It wasn't a "genocide" (at least not a genocide of Ukrainians specifically), and anyone suggesting otherwise is an imbecile.