Crimea/2014 Crimean status “referendum”
History
- A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991.[1] An overwhelming majority of 92.3% of voters approved the declaration of independence made by the Verkhovna Rada on 24 August 1991.
Interesting are the results by region:
Region | % for Ukraine |
---|---|
Luhansk Oblast | 83.86 |
Donetsk Oblast | 83.90 |
Crimean ASSR | 54.19 |
Sevastopol City | 57.07 |
Poll data
https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1583461156286791680
https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=236
https://romaninukraine.com/iri-public-opinion-survey-residents-of-ukraine-march-14-26/
“referendum”
13 years later, we are supposed to believe...
Actual results
https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1682956505975332864
Observers
Invasion
== "There was not an armed invasion of Crimea"
https://twitter.com/GicAriana/status/1673194366586716162
“Russia annexed Crimea without bloodshed”
“Russia annexed Crimea without firing a single shot”
Other examples
Chechnya
Kherson
"Kherson is #Russia, there will be no Kherson People's Republic, there will be no referendums. There will be one decree based on our appeal to Vladimir Putin and there will be a request to introduce region into the Russian Federation", said occupying authorities of #Kherson."[3]
https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/1573585812322746369 "Kherson is #Russia, there will be no Kherson People's Republic, there will be no referendums. There will be one decree based on our appeal to Vladimir Putin and there will be a request to introduce region into the Russian Federation", said occupying authorities of #Kherson.
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-dugenet/blog/070621/la-nouvelle-extreme-droite-francaise
https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1573348280398151680
Kremlintarian support for the fake referendum
“ It’s remarkable a libertarian would support a sham like that.
- — Mikhail Svetov, Libertarian Party of Russia [4]
- See Kremlintarianism
More
https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1577658781860757507
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1533119410138927104 Pundits on Russian state TV begrudgingly acknowledge that Russian-speakers in Ukraine they supposedly came to "liberate" are actually fighting against invading Russian troops.