Potemkin would not have denied the theater of Vladimir Putin, Friday, in the Kremlin and on Red Square: endorsing the will of the sovereign people, he validated the annexation of 18% of Ukrainian territory under his boot.
How could he have resisted this spontaneous momentum which saw throwing themselves into the - armed - arms of mother Russia 87% of the inhabitants who had remained under the gunfire in Kherson, 93.1% of those of Zaporijjia and, respectively, 98, 4% and 99.2% of the oblasts (districts) of Luhansk and Donetsk, occupied since 2014?
We would like to put a face to the reckless citizen of Donetsk who spat in the face of the good tsar...
"The words 'referendum' and 'election' should never be used to describe a process in which armed men knock on your door and force you to fill out a ballot before their very eyes,"
political scientist Brian Klaas told
The
Atlantic
. who has studied election rigging around the world.
Methods always betray the cheat and the context - it…
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