That might be a faux pas by the Moscow government. The unrest in Germany proper has spread to the peripheries as Ukrainians chanting “Germans go Home” and demanding that the “Viking Vozhdi” of the Ukrainian National Party step down. The Kiev headquarters of the UNP where besieged by mobs of protestors who burned copies of the Sacred Runes of Veles and Bandera’s portraits. Now that the Russians are amassing on Ukraine’s eastern border, the protest are beginning to die down and Ukrainians are joining the German garrisons in defending their “fatherland” from “Muscovites”. Ukrainians might hate the Germans and their “Viking lapdogs”, but they hate the Russians more. Something like the Holodomor is hard to forgive and forget.
It probably was, but the government in Moscow has made it a rather hard task to figure out specifically what they plan to do with the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics if they get the chance. Their was the weird scandal with the internal memo that referenced "The recalibration of the Ukraine", and asked the reader to reference Memo 814C, and the resignation off Ministerial Undersecretary Karlov, but the Soviets never explained what was going on.
You do have a valid point though. I suspect though that the USA, the United Kingdom, and Brazil will push for a independent Ukraine if it comes to it. We like the Soviets, but they are still rather strange and them with their old borders back...would be concerning.
(OOC: Technology is probably abit ahead of ours. But not by more then 10 or so years. And its mainly in computer technology and a few other related fields. The Soviet Union ended up on a weird technology/proto-transhumanism streak and has not really gone back sense. They are a weird set up were the people are basically kept happy with high tech consumer goods and a decent standard of living, while the government is rather Opaque and very nontransparent. They have the most extensive government only computer network in the world. Their allies include North Korea, and a few other random places. I've left China for others to decide whats going on their. Oh, the Soviets get along with the US, but its kind of a weird alliance. The Swiss have nuclear weapons, and have taken institutional paranoia to the most extreme it can get for a democracy, but are otherwise OTL.