Lets have a free election, with Russian troops standing outside the polling station.
Douchebag.
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How do you say Anchluss in Russian?
While I believe that the Crimea should be returned to Russia or become independent if that’s what its population wants (and that getting rid of it would be good for Ukrainian nationalists who otherwise might get outvoted in Ukraine due to Crimean votes), it is ridiculous that the issue be decided by a flash referendum held while the area is occupied by Russian troops. Putin may end up taking the Crimea, but had he stayed away he would have gotten, within a few months, the Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine that would have voted to secede to form an independent country, without any sanctions or other grief.