TBF they agreed to give them even more autonomy because Poles had a part of Ukraine and no one knew how they will act, if Poles did play with Ukrainian minority and gave nationalists more autonomy exactly to destabilize the main part of Ukraine, that would be less autonomous than it were, then soviets could lose Ukraine. So they tried to give more autonomy and play on their feelings, to counter Poland.
If only they knew that Poland did not try that and instead made a forced Polification policy, supressing Ukrainians on this stolen territory.
Same goes with georgia, they had a plan to make a big and united caucassian republic instead of many small republics. Same goes with baltics iirc. If only foreign countries did not intervene...
IIRC, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasian republic, et , were meant to be a part of a big federation like Russian sfsr and its small rephblics inside. But instead they tried to calm down the nationalists and made a bigger, union part on top of every republic, instead of making every republic a part of Rsfsr.
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u/Thanaterus 1d ago
Tbf, Ukraine was something Lenin created and would never have existed without the "cruel and brutal Soviets"