• Andrew
    +2

    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?