• Star Wars Enjoyer MA
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    watch liberals claim the elections were fraudulent, and that the oblasts actually wanna stay part of Ukraine.

      • Aria
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        They took down the video so I can’t link it but France24 English had a video of this guy https://youtu.be/efLR3Uqr5lc saying the voters were being forced to vote to join Russia under gunpoint while showing this b-roll: https://youtu.be/xkU_qPC650k

        They likely realised how ridiculous it looked and decided to remove the video.

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        Nothing new under the moon. Same was said about Crimean referendum.

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        Libs don’t care. They’ll just dismiss it and say all the international observers must’ve been paid off.

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              Hey, the CIA and NED press departments are almost certainly experts in their respective fields!

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      That’s exactly how it’s being spun in the news here. It’s exclusively referred to as a “sham referendum”, even before anything was known about it. Not a single article actually has any proof or even evidence at all that it’s a sham.

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      They’re welcome to visit Donetsk and ask people if they were forced to vote at gunpoint.

      Can’t promise they’ll be safe thought, between “Petal” mines littering some streets, Ukrainian shellings, which serve no military purpose, and what some locals will do to them for implying they wanted to stay part of a nazi state responsible for the above and/or implying they know better than the locals who is shelling them and scattering the mines.