不仅如此，双方都把17世纪哥萨克战士赫米尔尼茨基看作最受欢迎的历史人物，也都对20世纪30年代斯大林强制推行农业集体化造成的饥荒痛加谴责（而俄罗斯境内的俄族人却把斯大林看作二次大战中的救国英雄 ） 。
Moreover, both groups share the seventeenth-century Cossack warrior Bohdan Khmelnytskyi as their most popular historical figure, and both revile Stalin due to the famines caused by his forced collectivization of agriculture in the 1930's (whereas most ethnic Russians in Russia view Stalin as the heroic state savior of WWII).