Posted on 09/23/2022 12:40:41 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Armed police are going door-to-door while gun-toting mercenaries are guarding polling stations as Russian stages sham referendums in occupied Ukraine.
'Voting' is now underway in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions on whether or not to become provinces of Russia - with the results fixed by Moscow.
But, just to make extra sure, Kremlin officials, military police and hired guns are keeping a careful eye over the process - with Ukrainian politicians reporting that they are kicking front doors in to force people to cast their ballots.
Serhiy Haidai, governor of occupied Luhansk, said some towns under Russian occupation have been entirely sealed off to ensure people vote - with any crosses in the 'no' column recorded in a 'notebook'.
Meanwhile state media has reported an unfeasibly high 97 per cent of people in two of those regions - Donetsk and Luhansk - are in favour of joining Russia.
Ballot boxes have also been opened across Russia itself, ostensibly to allow displaced Ukrainians to vote, but in reality offer more opportunities for vote rigging.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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🇷🇺 Turnout on the first day of voting in referendums on the entry of 4 regions of the former Ukraine into Russia:
DPR - 23.64%
LPR - 21.97%
Zaporozhye region - 20.52%
Kherson region - 15.31%
There are still 4 days of voting ahead.
It is clear that the turnout will be sufficient.
Four duma members have asked to be sent to the front.
Sniff.
Russia is holding Lyman but barely.
They certainly earned it the hard way.
We don’t have Trump. We suffer.
I think HIMARS are going to keep doing something about it.
I think people who hate the authoritarian thug Putin will continue to speak out against it.
Democrats love to do this in urban centers already and yet you pal around with this plain Russian fascism.
You just can’t help yourself, can you? Posting nonsense seems to be an obsessive, compulsive disorder with you, or you are being paid. You can’t imagine why the people of the Donbass, for example, would vote overwhelmingly to join the RF. So, let me help, because I know you seek the truth relentlessly /sarc/
Why would the people of the Donbass not want to be governed by a US installed coup government? Hmmmm....COULD IT BE THAT:
1. Eastern Ukraine voted heavily for the last government of Ukraine elected by all of Ukraine that the US, with the help of Soros, NeoNazis, and oligarchs like Kolomoyski, overthrew in the 2014 coup?
2. The the heavily Russian speaking and ethnic Russian population of Eastern Ukraine didn’t want any part of the coup government and its anti-ethnic Russian and anti-Russian language laws?
3. The people of Eastern Ukraine have been alienated by the indiscriminate war against men, women, and children the coup governments have waged against them FOR OVER 8 YEARS?
4. The coup governments sent substantial NeoNazi formations of the AFU to wage war in the East, and the people of the East have suffered from their rank brutality?
5. The people in Eastern Ukraine know that the RF has a far better economy than the Zelensky regime (which will probably suffer economic collapse this winter) and a less corrupt (but not perfect) government?
6. The people of Eastern Ukraine know that if the Zelensky regime reacquires control there will be something close to a genocide and that being part of the RF assures the RF will absolutely prevent that from happening because the territories in question will be regarded as part of the RF by the RF?
7. The people of Eastern Ukraine don’t want be forced to live in a GloboHomo culture that promotes, among other social diseases, faggotry, the grooming of children for various sodomite “lifestyles”, the chemical and surgical mutilation of children in the name of “gender theory”, and strident secularism?
There’s more, but that’s enough to show that these people have more than ample reason to vote to join the RF. I suspect that the “Yes” vote may be over 90% in the Donbass and may be over 70%-80% in Kherson and Zapahroje oblasts.
Too bad we can’t vote to separate from the Biden regime.
I bet Democrats think this is a good method to use in the US.
Kherson 'will definitely be liberated from Russia by September' as war 'reaches a turning point', official says, as Zelensky claims almost 40,000 of Putin's men have been killed
July 25, 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4081001/posts
Running out of time, Chrissie!
Look over the FR article list for Chris Pleasance for some laughs:
so well said!!
VS Russia, China, Iran, etc. HELL YES ITS CIVILIZED!
You're posting BS allegations without any facts. Show me any poll in Ukraine, before the warfare, that showed a majority of Ukrainians in ANY Oblast(Except for Crimea) wanted to leave Ukraine. You still cannot explain why the Ukrainian army, with many ethnic Russians, are fighting ferociously against Putin's invasion.
'Despite Concerns about Governance, Ukrainians Want to Remain One Country' 2014
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2014/05/08/despite-concerns-about-governance-ukrainians-want-to-remain-one-country/
Do they have to show an photo ID to vote?
Nice try with your propaganda piece. For a few minutes take a look at an ACTUAL REFERENDUM LINE and the people voting in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3r9DyVUfA&t=111s
So explain moron, why Putin, who according to you is so terrified of NATO expansion, said its okay for Finland and Sweden to join NATO and that its "not a threat"? Why because NATO invading nuclear Russia is NOT going to happen. Stop making stupid excuses for Russian Imperialism.
Idiots like you don't understand why former Russian captive nations join organizations like NATO
In 1939 the German–Soviet victory parade took place in Polish town of Brest-Litovsk. As allies, the Russians and Nazi's celebrated liberating Poland from the Poles
Instead of New Black Panther thugs, Putin uses Chechens as his vote fraud enforcers. Shame on you for supporting Putins vote fraud.
“ Instead of New Black Panther thugs, Putin uses Chechens as his vote fraud enforcers. Shame on you for supporting Putins vote fraud.”
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What I support is Free Republic. How about you?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4095195/posts
From your link:
According to the commission, the observers have arrived from Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Greece, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria and other countries.
These are not Brandon-approved observers! No wonder that our resident Brandonists would not accept them.
I actually screwed up posting that. Its a few years old.
My mistake, sorry!
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