the Ukrainian Question

[Magoo]

Considering some of the habits of the Romans along with their social values, 'wasn't so sinister' is not the descriptor I would have used for their treatment of the local populations.

nature of the beast 
would the moors have been better taskmasters?
the scale is varying degrees of bad unfortunately
we need only look to the english and their swathe of occupations centuries before the knowledge of their occupiers was turned into something tangible, then we saw the greatest occupiers of them all, the british crown and its empire.