>>16416899In those times Ukrainians and Belarusians were Russian, even today we are nearly identical with the differences being slight cultural values.
These small scale chimpout uprisings just don't work most of the time because of how hard it is to properly organize anything big from within the order you already live under, it's the same everywhere.
The reason it was successful in the revolution was because of the tsars leniency and foreign influence like you said.
Russians are orderly, not rebellious, but for the people to take mistreatment it takes a strong iron fist and not just in the ussr, we aren't docile and cucked like they are in the west where they just accept their bs.