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.
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Russia has asked countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and BRICS to provide verification that the referendums are being held correctly.
Golly, and here I thought the Donbass refused to recognize the legitimacy of the coup government and have been fighting it ever since 2014. Yes, they initially wanted autonomy within Ukraine rather like Quebec’s deal in Canada, but the UkroNazis wouldn’t have it so they seceded. You either know nothing about this situation or you are a NeoCon/WEF fanboy.
Thanks for the historic maps. It adds truth to all the propaganda we are seeing by Biden’s war cheerleaders. It serves well as a vax to the Russian Derangement Syndrome the West has been infected with.
I stopped believing fake news reporting on the war, reporting on coof, and every other narrative crisis
Supporting rigged elections is sad. Tucker Carlson knew the fix was in for Brandon and bragged that he voted for Kanye instead of Trump. And he kept silent on The Steal until after Brandon was inaugurated and Tucker got his Hannity money contract. Stolen elections are bad whether they are rigged by democrats or Putin.
“And them ‘sham’ elections about as ‘sham’ as when the US and NATO had no problems, whatsoever, in tearing apart Serbia to create Kosovo with a ‘sham’ referendum,”
Shows what little you know Skippy.
Have you EVER been to the former Yugoslavia?
If you have, then you would know that Kosovo was an autonomous province, and the whole process for them demanding their independence started not long after Tito died..... Over a decade BEFORE NATO ever got involved in the former Yugoslavia.
So go back to drooling over your photo collection of your boi Putin.
They’re out of practice.🙄
“free of the persecution of neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists.”
The Wagner group, and Putin’s “little green (spetsnaz) men” have been responsible for all that since Putin’s bought and paid for little b*tch Yanukovych was thrown out of office.
Did Putin subcontract his social media posting jobs to some cubicle farm in Serbia? Why are you and your pro-Russian posters so fixated on Serbia?
When you say "we" do you mean Russia or the USA?
And what sciences is South Africa more advanced in than the USA?
Which war are you talking about? The one that Russia started?
It is sad to see how the Russians are so weak as a people that they are still upset about what happened to them in 1237 when Genghis Khan showed up.
Where are you posting from, St. Petersburg or Serbia?
That’s a new one on Free Republic. Posting pictures intended to put America in a bad light.
Sadly, it isn’t. One Putinist insists here that we conservatives gather our facts on Ukraine from the research noted pinko George Galloway. We are in Orwellian times.
I doubt Mr. Robinson is anti-American. I doubt he takes kindly to those who are. So you keep posting your anti-American screeds, by all means. The sooner you keep it up, the sooner you may get what you need.
PLEASE continue...
BTW, it is a horrid photo. That photo did more to galvanize the anti-war movement than any other. From that day onward, public opinion turned steadily against the war in Vietnam and the protests only got stronger. Eventually the war became politically untenable and we pulled out.
American civil superiority prevailed. By contrast, what do you see in Russia?? Protesters given 15 years in prison. Protestors arrested and kicked just for standing with a sign. All opposition shut down. TV stations and newspapers closed.
America isn’t perfect (nothing is), but it is far superior to Russia’s despotism. Thanks for reminding us of that.
Oh please... How dumb do you think we are???
NOTHING RuSSia has involved with has EVER been “free” and “fair.”
But this time, Ukrainians are ACTUALLY going to STOP THE STEAL!!! LOL!
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