[Brellium]

What is illegitimate about the referendum? Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?

Your orcs have deported nearly a million Ukrainians to Siberia, so who is there to vote for the referendum?

[NorseViking]

Orcs? LOL. Some weak media-infused brains can’t think anymore. “Deported to Siberia” is a doublespeak for genuine refugees escaping to Russia from the warzone, as contrary to economic migrants who fled to the West to abuse the social benefits from the the unaffected parts of Ukraine even though they didn’t see war.

[Dr. Franklin]

Your orcs have deported nearly a million Ukrainians to Siberia, so who is there to vote for the referendum?

Putin is following tradition. The Tsars, and later Stalin, deported political dissidents to Siberia and Kazakhstan after invading and occupying lands. The model for the Holocaust was Stalin's deportation of Poles to the East. History is simply repeating itself.