Mock Proposal Calls For 'British City' Donetsk to Secede From Ukraine, Join U.K.

The Moscow Times ^ | Mar. 25 2014 00:00 | Anna Dolgov

[WhiskeyX]

"We are demanding a referendum on returning Yuzovka to its original bosom — Great Britain!" it said.

The local Donbass.ua news website reported that more than 7,000 people had supported the proposal by Sunday, with an online poll showing about 61 percent of respondents favored accession to Britain, and another 16 percent favored "broad regional autonomy" with English as an official language.

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President Vladimir Putin also signed a law last December, making public calls for separatism punishable by a prison term,[....] Putin has opened a Pandora box of separatist drives in and around Russia.

[WhiskeyX]

This earlier news article invites a comparison between the greater number of jocular supporters of pro-British separatism in the Donetsk versus the perhaps lesser number of not so jocular pro-Russian separatists.

[trebb]

"We are demanding a referendum on returning Yuzovka to its original bosom — Great Britain!" it said.

And Putin said, "Molon labe"....

[wetphoenix]

It was a bad try to prop a Kiev coup. Let’s see as they are to choose Afghanistan as a better option.

[grumpygresh]

Some of us here would like accession to Switzerland.

[pepsionice]

Prior to the 1800s....there were 300 states, empires, and city-states within what you consider Germany today. Each ran it’s own executive council or king or duke. Until Napoleon’s era and the need for Prussian military strength...no one cared about some major clumsy or expensive top-heavy government.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Cuba calls for Cuban city Miami to secede, join Cuba.

France calls for Louisiana and Quebec to secede and join France.

Mexico calls for American Southwest to secede, join Mexico.

Russia calls for Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and the northern part of California to secede and join mother Russia.

Mexico objects to the northern part of California seceding and declares war on Russia. Russia nukes Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosi wiping out Mexico’s drug economy and its army which was mobilizing to invade the American Southwest.

Seeing a great opportunity, the United States cedes Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California to Russia and New England to Canada in exchange for Canada ceding the Yukon and British Columbia to Russia. Since the states which Russia nuked are uninhabited and the Mexican government falls apart, the United States annexes all of Mexico and moves all border patrol and immigration posts to the new much smaller borders with Guatemala and Belize.

All the surviving Mexicans become U.S. citizens, the vast majority of whom go back to their homeland as it is no longer necessary to travel to colder climates to register for welfare.

[WhiskeyX]

“It was a bad try to prop a Kiev coup. Let’s see as they are to choose Afghanistan as a better option.”

You keep repeating the same lie over and over and over again claiming there was a coup, when in fact the Verkhovna Rada (parliament), lawfully elected in 2012 as acknowledged by Russia in 2012, accepted the resignation Yanukovych tendered to the Deputies and appointed an interim administration pending the elections pursuant to Article 112 of the Constitution. You are also disseminating disinformation and false propaganda by refusing to acknowledge Yanukovych chose to not file a complaint with the Constitutional Court. Yanukovych has instead defected to a foreign nation and assisted the foreign Russian Government to invade the Ukraine and overthrow the elected Ukrainian government/s. If anyone is attempting to commit a coup d’état, the overthrow if the lawfully elected government, it is Yanukovych and his pro-Russian supporters.