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Posted on 09/25/2022 7:09:15 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Kremlin appears to have sent soldiers to force Ukrainians to vote in its staged referendums at gunpoint, according to residents who say troops came to their homes in occupied territories to enforce the 'vote'.
'My family was just forced to vote at gunpoint in Russian cosplay of a "referendum” in southern Ukraine,' said Maxim Eristavi, journalist and co-founder of Hromadske International, a broadcasting station in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian journalist posted a video purporting to show armed soldiers entering the hallways where his family live and forcing them to vote in favour of joining Russia.
Western countries have accused Russia of staging illegitimate referendums in Ukraine as a pretext for annexing parts of its neighbour.
Kyiv called out the exercise as a bare-faced attempt by Russia to hold on to occupied territory now threatened by the Ukrainian army's counter-offensive.
Eristavi added that his family members were also forced to take part in the same exercises in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 — in an attempt to fool foreign audiences into thinking the voting was free and fair.
Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea are all Ukrainian regions at least partially under Russian occupation where the referendums are being held — with the results fixed by Moscow.
Russian state media said the armed guards enforcing the door-to-door voting are there for 'security'.
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Those people do not appear to be under duress.
America is in no position to lecture any country about the legitimacy of elections.
Were those Russian soldiers trained by the FBI?
President Brandon is SO jealous of this type of voting. If only he could round up the Deplorables, Dregs of Society, Semi-NAZIs, and the Ultra-Super-Duper MAGAs and force them to vote his way. Only then will we have Brandon-Style Unity.
Americans may be ready to turn the page on Trump but he lives in the heads of the communist infiltrators. It’s a good thing the far left kooks aren’t having kids. Trump would be living in their brains rent free too!
So Eristavi says his family were forced to take part of the referendums in Crimea in 2014...and now he claims they’re forced to do so again? Where are they living now? None of the four regions where the referendums occurred are in Crimea (unless he means to imply his family chose to stick around in Russia-aligned areas for months, even though they ostensibly had problems with the Crimea referendum in 2014).
Something doesn’t pass the smell test.
But then again, he is part of the Atlantic Council, and his bio is rather telling: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/maxim-eristavi-2/
“He is the only openly gay journalist in Ukraine and has been an outspoken voice in raising civil rights issues of the region abroad. Eristavi is a 2015 Poynter fellow at Yale University with a focus on informational wars and pan-regional LGBTI civil rights movements.”
Chechens with machine guns looking over your shoulder while you “vote” is all okay for Democrats and Putinists.
It’s no different in the US.
Chechens with machine guns looking over your shoulder while you “vote” is all okay for Democrats and Putinists.
Two America hating peas in a pod. Birds of a feather flock together.
And our Deep State praises them for it:
How Australia's compulsory voting saved it from Trumpism
In a new book, historian Judith Brett takes a deep dive into an electoral system ‘Americans can only dream of’...
Australia is one of only 19 countries out of 166 electoral democracies where voting is compulsory, and one of only nine that enforce it. It is the only English-speaking country that compels its citizens to vote.
The impact is hard to overstate. In 2015, former US president Barack Obama praised Australia’s system, saying it would be “transformative” if everyone voted in the United States....
“Yes we are.”
And how many of the people who protested on January 6th are currently in jail without being charged or convicted?
We have manifold states who don’t even perform the bare minimum of due diligence in proving that voters are who they say they are. Same day registration, ballot harvesting, mass mail-in voting...and transparency is a bloody joke.
America may be a different flavor of crap relative to Russia when it comes to elections, but it’s still crap.
“But then again, he is part of the Atlantic Council”
For those who don’t know, the Atlantic Council is the Neocon mouthpiece.
“Rigged elections are evil, no matter where they occur.”
Tell me about it. At least Sweden was able to change their government, and Italy may just do the same today (assuming the Globalists don’t ‘adjust’ the vote). But it seems in the US, those days may be soon ending (and nearly did with HB1).
I doubt they are.
These slimy propagandists will go to ridiculous lengths to get their lies out. Their stench is saturating this forum.
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