Posted on 05/05/2014 2:51:03 PM PDT by Agog
The website of the “President of Russia’s Council on Civil Society and Human Rights” posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to the Council’s report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout was a maximum 30%. And of these, only half voted for annexation – meaning only 15 percent of Crimean citizens voted for annexation.
The fate of Crimea, therefore, was decided by the 15 percent of Crimeans, who voted in favor of unification with Russia (under the watchful eye of Kalashnikov-toting soldiers).
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Oh please...it was a blog........
It may be a blog but the reported results match the ethnic makeup of the Crimea. No Tatar would vote for Russian governance. Russia is already punishing the Tatars.
Looks like Putin and Obamadork are blood bruddahs.
Guess we can read your sentiments!
And you know these were the real election results because?
These people are pro-Russian. I was there last August. I've talked to them.
Who effing cares what the referendum vote in Crimea was?
It was a more democratic process than the putsch in Kiev.
WHO ARE THE CRIMEAN TARTARS?
....Some of the children of the deported—raised in Uzbekistan and now adults—have returned to become leaders. Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, the representative body of the Tatars, has called on his people—there are now approximately 300,000 Tatars in Crimea—to peacefully boycott the referendum. Nevertheless, some Crimean Tatars have vowed to oppose secession, with force if necessary.
According to Western press reports, some Tatars fighting with the rebels in Syria have offered to return to join the cause...
> According to the Council’s report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout was a maximum 30%. And of these, only half voted for annexation – meaning only 15 percent of Crimean citizens voted for annexation.
Thanks Agog.
It’s interesting that you used the word putsch. That’s terminology straight out of the Russian disinformation releases. When the Ukrainian president went against his promise to work with the EU and then signed the agreement with Russia, people were understandably upset. Of course the $35 to $45 billion in missing government funds could not have had nothing to do with the president’s disappearance. That discovery happened afterwards,
It does explain the estate he built which was way above his pay grade along with the similarly ostentatious estates of his comrade ministers in crime. The president was not deposed, he departed like a thief in the night with his stolen loot.
As for the democratic process you admire in the Crimea, many of the Ukrainians had to give up their passports which meant they could not vote. The turn out was meager when you consider the actual numbers and makeup of the Crimean residents. If it had been a true referendum, Putin would have been left out in the cold. Anything else I can disabuse you of comrade?
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