• DerPapa69
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      2 years ago

      That’s exactly how it’s being spun in the news here. It’s exclusively referred to as a “sham referendum”, even before anything was known about it. Not a single article actually has any proof or even evidence at all that it’s a sham.

    • EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml
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      They’re welcome to visit Donetsk and ask people if they were forced to vote at gunpoint.

      Can’t promise they’ll be safe thought, between “Petal” mines littering some streets, Ukrainian shellings, which serve no military purpose, and what some locals will do to them for implying they wanted to stay part of a nazi state responsible for the above and/or implying they know better than the locals who is shelling them and scattering the mines.