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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Idiot. Such a referendum was done in 2003. Furthermore, Chechnya is the only Russian republic where Putin got over 90% votes during the last president elections. Just sayin'  |
Yeah, I think the official count was 95% Chechnyans in favor of Putin's constitution in that 2003 one.
Look, you might have a warped view of how elections work from living under autocracies for so long, but 95% of electorates voting for any major change of societal structure just doesn't happen outside of cooked results i.e. state sponsored fraud, or results obtained by armed occupation and intimidation, etc. All of the above really.
You could hold a vote on whether everyone gets ice cream or cabbage for dessert and you still wouldn't get 95% for ice cream in a free election. It's laughable. Especially in a separatist region where Russian troops (and Chechnyans admittedly) engaged in indiscriminate killing/destruction and human rights abuses. To have that adversarial and destructive of a recent history and then claim 95% in favor with a straight face...
I'm mostly just trolling though, I know you'll stick up for Mother Rossiya with the last beat of your heart. Nice propaganda style picture of a reconstructed sliver of Grozny, still doesn't change that Russia carpet-bombed and destroyed most of the city in the mid-late 1990s or that much of it hasn't been restored.