Quote (SanduLungu @ Jan 24 2022 03:56pm)
"Some 95.5% of voters in Crimea have supported joining Russia, officials say, after half the votes have been counted in a disputed referendum.
Crimea's leader says he will apply to join Russia on Monday. Russia's Vladimir Putin has said he will respect the Crimean people's wishes.
Many Crimeans loyal to Kiev boycotted the referendum, and the EU and US condemned it as illegal.
Pro-Russian forces took control of Crimea in February.
They moved in after Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted after street protests."
from the bbc. so it clearly shows that the vote took place after the pro russian regime was already there for one month at least.
Ah yes, the same media which has totally ignored the fact that the Ukrainian army massacred more than 50,000 people in the Eastern part of the nation after launching a war on their own nation's citizens, directly after an illegal coup, also conducted by them and with Washington's help.
The same media which ignored the massacre in Odessa, where some 50+ pro-Russian protestors were
trapped and burned alive by far-right Ukrainian militants in May of 2014. I doubt you've ever even heard of the Odessa massacre. Gee, I wonder why?
"Many Crimeans loyal to Kiev" does not mean a majority. This could be any number, something as small as a few dozen or a few hundred. But of course they get more coverage than the fact that the Ukrainian "volunteer" militias are a bunch of Nazi-worshipping murderers that destroyed entire villages and towns with indiscriminate bombardment, wiping out entire families of innocent people in the process.
Crimea was already a pro-Russian area before the war. After the civil war started going, it became pro-Russian to the extreme. It was either that or be butchered by the DC-backed maniacs that took over Kiev. Not exactly a hard choice to make, but I guess since most westerners lack the ability to imagine or conceive *what that actually is like*, since they're so spoiled and can't ever imagine something like that happening to them, it's impossible for them to accept it as being true... even though it is.