This has nothing to do with Stalin and Russification. In fact, in Soviet Ukraine, a policy of
UKRAINEFICATION was carried out and you were “convinced” to speak Ukrainian and constantly remember your Ukrainian carnies in order to decolonize Ukraine from Tsarist Russia. And so it is in EVERY non-Russian Soviet republic. In fact, it even went so far that the communists themselves launched separatist sentiments and centrifugal movements in the USSR.
If you were really interested in the history of Ukraine, then you would know that about two-thirds of the territory of modern Ukraine consists of parts that the Bolsheviks themselves gave to Soviet Ukraine through the annexation of Western Ukraine returned from Poland and Romania (just read the history of Poles, Hungarians and Romanians in Ukraine), populated by the mixed population Novorossiya, Crimea with Russian-Greek -Tatar history and the even more mixed to the point of losing the possibility of division Donbass region, mainly populated by Russian-Ukrainian workers speaking Russian. And let me not even tell you about Ancient Rus', its subsequent fragmentation, or God forgive me, the Galician-Volynian Principality with the Rusyns.
I lived in this country for more than 20 years and I have mixed Ukrainian roots and I can assure you that the belief in a monolithic Ukraine is one of the most unrealistic stereotypes that I have heard from those living in the West. By the way, your link refers to Russification in general, dating back to the times of Tsarist Russia, lmao. Sorry, but Stalin didn't come up with this. Russification in this case consisted (if we are talking about truly Soviet times) of learning Russian as a second language, naming streets in honor of Soviet or all-Russian figures, etc. In general, everything that you can see in British Scotland or French Aquitaine and Brittany.