The past is a prologue: Russia’s bogus referenda come from the USSR playbooks
Sofi Oksanen, a Finnish-Estonian playwright and an acclaimed author of the novel “Purge”, says that by organising “referenda” in the occupied Ukrainian territories, Russia is following the same tactics used by the Soviet Union’s occupation of the Baltic states. This is an edited version of Sofi Oksanen’s original Facebook post; published with the kind permission. […]
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