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Ukraine crisis: Early results show Crimea overwhelmingly votes to join Russia
First numbers in a referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region on whether to join Russia or become an effectively independent state connected to Ukraine expected soon.
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The most beautiful thing I've read about this whole thing so far:
At a polling station inside a historic school, tears came to Vladimir Lozovoy, a 75-year-old retired Soviet naval officer, as he talked about his vote. “I want to cry. I have finally returned to my motherland. It is an incredible feeling. This is the thing I have been waiting for for 23 years,” he said.
There has been propaganda from both Western and Russian news sources but the desires of the Crimean people are very real. How can anyone deny them their right to be independent?
Is this a legitimate result or just a North Korean election type situation?
95+%? If you are going to manipulate an election at least make it realistic.
The other 4.5% of voters never made it home from the polls.
Straight to the gulags?
Let's see a picture of the ballot.