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'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I see soldiers in a war zone providing security for canvassers. I don’t see anyone being forced to vote. You warmongers are going to get thousands upon thousands of people killed.
You’re repeating the talking points of the New Black Panther party. Sad.
Same talking points as the New Black Panthers in Philly. Shame.
With a Chechnyan with an AK standing over them. No. No duress at all. But I have to apologize. I originally thought the post referred to FBI plans for our elections in 6 weeks.
And get them killed while safely ensconced at their own keyboards.
REMF filth.
“Soldiers with Assault Rifles”
(Duh)
Repeated talking points on the MSM.
I figured out why.
All the White Supremacists with their AR-15s will force everyone to vote for Trump.
So, ARs and White Supremacists will have to be banned and eliminated.
Another staged photo session for the war porn sickos to get their rocks off.
You support rigged elections.
Holder’s Black Panther Stonewall
Why did the Justice Department dismiss such a clear case of voter intimidation?
President Obama’s Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.
The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen”—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.)
One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430
Charges Against ‘New Black Panthers’ Dropped by Obama Justice Dept.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/charges-against-new-black-panthers-dropped-by-obama-justice-dept
Just as you support “rigged” elections ORYX/Bellingcat propaganda peddler....
‘Do you hear them laughing in Belgrade?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jUHqTHkBc
Your comparison is faulty and your insistence on repeating your error is proof of your ignorance.
You don’t WANT to see it.
I can’t see what isn’t there. The blood of innocents will be on your hands.
They are not under duress! The daily mail is a scumbag liberal media. Don’t trust a single word they say. They lie so much they don’t even know it. Go to Moon of Alabama it is The closest to truth you can get.
Total propaganda article.
I’ve been to Donetsk in 2018. These soldiers were everywhere. Ukraine was fighting with DPR then, and I was woken several nights by Ukrainian shelling in the city.
And I hate to say it, everyone I spoke with there in 2018 really did identify as part Russia.
” threatened to arrest anyone who votes and imprison them for 5 years”
Source?
” threatened to arrest anyone who votes and imprison them for 5 years”
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