there is a bigger picture to this.
historically on the eurasian continent, the most fiercely resistant to imperial control have been especially those in the region of mongolia and southern siberia. both the chinese and the russians and most of europe at one time or another, often several times, were overrun by their armies.
looking at the alt-history side of it, the mongolian genetics trace quite strongly back to the legendary Lemuria, and on the other side, which i think you see most patently with ukrainians, they have strong atlantean genes, the two types are notable in the events of the only UFO abduction story with physical evidence - hair from two "aliens" and one had genetic traces of iberian/celtic genetics and the other had marks of mongolian genetics.
i think there is a much deeper story going on behind what we see here. it seems to be a war on these two lineages from a third group who likely are related to the western, ibero-marussian lines (atlanteans), ie, the tribe of the fallen angels.
hmmm hmmmm