Oh sure the Ukrainians are everywhere:D
Ukraine descendants in in Kuban lived here already 150 years and all of them told about themself as the Russian Cossacs Kato.
Besides my ethnically clear russian ancestrors lived here since 1870-yy and i never believed that the people in Kuban associate themself with a “Ukraine”.
And you lie about Don cossacs, they never despise the russian peasants as and ukrainian.
They all were the Russian cossacs ( who sweared for imperor)
The thing is that the most poor farmers and peasants realise that they would become even more poor in Kolhozs but not everyone dared to oppose the Soviets. Of course, some people volonteered to collaborate with the Soviets in their collectivisation but mainly those who wanted to drop farming and start the career in the Soviet bureaucratic and punitive structures.
I can’t agree Kato.
The most poorest peasants lived in Centrall russia - coz there a poor land.
In the Ukraine and Kuban is the black soil ( shernozen) - that is more reach and useful.
Therefor in the Kuban and Ukraine lived the more rich peasants always.
The relation to the collectivisation was’t the same in those areas- the poorest central regions has got rather profit then the problems from collectivisation.
The peasants in Kuban and Ukraine have meet the collectivisation mostly hostilely- there were the OBVIOUS reason - they did not want to go into Kolhoz and they did not need to use a tractors and ets coz they HAVE enought harvest every year.
The firsts profit of collectivisation has appear already in the 1934 - when Soviets got a first money for the industrialisation of the state.Thay has bagan to build the plants and ets.