How the US dream of world supremacy was buried in Crimea | The WikiLeaks Party

How the US dream of world supremacy was buried in Crimea | The WikiLeaks Party

These are official results from the referendum in Crimea:

96.77% voted for Crimea to join Russia

02.51% voted for Crimea to remain a sovereign autonomous republic inside the Ukraine

00.72% of the votes were declared invalid

83.10% of the eligible voters participated in this referendum (thus:16.9% did not vote)

As a reminder, this is the official ethnic makeup of Crimea (in 2001):

58.32% Russians

24.32% Ukrainians

12.10% Crimean Tatars

Okay, so what does this mean?

First and foremost, the participation was massive and the ‘yes’ to Russia won by a landslide.

Second, this was not a vote along ethnic lines. When we say that are
58.32% Russians in Crimea that does not mean that all of these are
eligible voters as children are not allowed to vote. So the real figure
of eligible Russian voters in Crimea is probably well under 50%. And yet
the results show that 96.77% of the eligible voters voted to join
Russia. Where did the rest of the 43.77% (more or less) come from? It
had to be from Ukrainian and Tatar voters. Even if we assume that 100%
of the Russians in Crimea were eligible voters and that they all showed
up to vote and all of them voted for the ‘yes’ to Russia, it still
leaves 35.45% of the ‘yes’ vote to non-Russians. Even 100% of the
Ukrainians does not fill the gap. In other words, the so-called “Tatar
boycott” of this referendum is a complete fabrication of the western
media.