When Putin annexed Crimea, he held a referendum. The people of Crimea voted whether they want to be a part of Russia. It was a joke. It was buffony. No sane person can accept that as a legit vote. The west dismissed that laughable mockery of a "vote".
Yet, in 1954 there was no vote at all. Not even a joke of a vote. Not even a "vote-yes-or-tanks-shoot" type of vote. Nevermind vote, there were not even any opinion polls. Not any type of public discussions of any sort. Mind you public discussions were not a thing in USSR. This is how Ukraine got Crimea. Yet somehow that's ok. Somehow that totalitarian decree is in line with the western values. Somehow the whole civilized world can get behind this USSR decree? To the point that we are having bloodshed over a border line arbitrary drawn by a head of tyrannical state, that no longer exist?
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