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A few days ago, you said you had reevaluated the situation and realized the Ukrainians didn't want to live under Russian rule, yet here you are back licking Putin's ass again. The referenda you are referring to were held only in towns tightly controlled by Russia not throughout the area and did not offer the option to remain in Ukraine. They are in stark contrast to every poll taken in the area before the Russian occupation. No honest person would cite them as evidence of the opinions of the Ukrainians under Russian occupation.You do cherry picking.
"While early polls in April reported that supporters of independence were a small minority, the Los Angeles Times reported that the later violence in Odessa and Mariupol turned many against the Ukrainian transitional government."
Donetsk:
"2,252,867 voted in favour of self-rule, with 256,040 against, on a turnout of nearly 75%."
Luhansk:
"The final results were that 96.2% voted for separation."
2014 Donbas status referendums - Wikipedia
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I means, when Kiev turned anti-Russian in 2014, the people were deprived of rights and they were burned to death for being Russian. No investigations took place when Ukrainian Russians were attacked. Nazi gangs controlled the streets with baseball bats, flails and guns, the police disappeared. Of course, the east developed a desire to break away from Ukraine.