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Temporarily occupied Ukraine encouraged to vote in Russian election by armed men (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9945668

One resident complained of pro-Russian collaborators with ballot boxes going from house to house looking for voters accompanied by armed soldiers.

Vladimir Putin will certainly win another term of office, but a high turnout would help the Kremlin's efforts to legitimise his continued rule.

It would also be used to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Well technically, since the US has the electoral college, the US is what you wrote down is China.

But that aside, one of Chomsky's books or something from the 80's discussed exactly that difference. Or was it Slavoj Zizek? Anyway.

How in the US, there's an illusion of choice, but how in Russia, there's only the one option. Both Americans and Russians have equally much agency, but the Americans want to believe it isn't true for them, whereas Russians are bored of pretending it's not true for them.

Or something. Memory fails.