45 million people
Maybe it was due to their Kazar forbearers, maybe it was a way to reject Russian domination and tyranny but out of 45 million Ukrainians 78.% of them are jewish, 12% are athiests, followed by the Catholic's and other branches and then dispite pograms, dispite generations of persecution dispite it all only 4 percent of the population is orthodox Christian and most of those are greek orthodox not Russian.
I don't know why the Russian attempts to convert Ukraine failed and backfired so horribly but the fact remains that dispite pograms, the holocaust and other disasters it still contains more jews then any other country on earth.
But what if the Russian efforts to convert the Ukrainians worked what would the Ukraine look like if it wasn't a jewish majority region? How would that change its history? Russian history and world history?