This is a genuinely insightful thread that helps understand why these "referenda" are far more than fig-leaves for nudge-nudge/wink-wink pseudo-legitimization but are sui generis instruments of oppression.👏👏👏

Anyone following Ukraine developments should read this 🧵
RT @KristoNurmis: 🧵 on the "referenda" in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Understandably, many people call these illegal, rigged, & a "travesty of democracy." But portraying…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1575012480933195776