30 years ago, on December 1, 1991, 92% of Ukrainians who participated in a national referendum voted for independence
30 years ago, on December 1, 1991, 92% of Ukrainians who participated in a national referendum voted for independence
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One of these places not quite in tune with the rest.
These days the majority of Crimeans consider themselves Russian, for better or worse.
What was the % turnout?
but but but they only did want bananas in supermarket not independence nor abandoning socialism /s
I went to Kiev recently, and most of the people I talked to (probably over 90%, and mostly younger, age 20-30) said that Eastern Ukraine should go to Russia, and they don’t want Ukraine to join the EU because “Ukraine has nothing in common with the West.” and “we should have closer ties with Russia”.
I was really shocked to learn this is a widespread opinion, since I knew the complete opposite from what I’ve seen on Reddit.
Interesting that ethnic Russians in the Eastern and Southern part of the country have voted for independence as well. Why?
What kind of sadist sociopath uses burgundy text on dark grey?
Ukraine should be brought into NATO ASAP
Back then lots of voters believed that independence equaled prosperity
You can see the Commonwealth
Note the percentage for crimea
Makes a Russian
Mayority in 2014(?)Kinda likely
To many comments and posts from russians in each post about Ukraine …
Well when you ethnically cleanse a region of its natives and move Russians. This is what you get.
Is that Crimea at the bottom at 54%?
And when the people of Donbass made a referendum in 2014, they brought in the army.
This is some good propaganda. In the original Soviet Union referendum on dissolving the Soviet Union r rather whether or not it should remain a Union conducted in March 1991 all the USSR member states voted yes in favor of preserving the Union. Then according to the Wikipedia article on Ukraine’s on referendum in December of that same year, it says that opinion was changed by the media campaigns in Ukraine to where the “Polls showed 63% support for the “Yes” campaign in September 1991; that grew to 77% in the first week of October 1991 and 88% by mid-November 1991″. Seems like the Ukranian public was brainwashed into voting in favor of independence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
Even Crimea has the majority of voters for independence