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Nah, I'm fine with most of western Ukraine being USSR. I think for the most part there was a good reason for that. The USSR really only kept those regions where the population was majority Ukrainian. I even think it makes sense to keep Transcarpathia under the USSR (previously it was the "tail end" of Czechoslovakia) even with half of it actually being the northern part of the historically Romanian region of Maramureș, because it gives the USSR a direct connection to Hungary rather than having to go through Czechoslovakia or Romania.
I'm mostly joking about Bucovina too, because obviously the northern part was much more heavily Ukrainian than Romanian by that point. It's just sort of a meme that Romanian irredentist nationalism constantly harps on about various historical regions like that.
Only thing i really dislike about the post war USSR borders is how they included the southern coast of Moldova into the Ukrainian SSR. I think the Moldovan SSR should have gotten its historical coast back. I think that would have greatly helped their economy.