• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      Elections during a war would lead to the enemy interfering and installing a puppet government.

      Especially if we are talking about Russia.

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        5 months ago

        When I look up the definition of tankie I see something about authoritarian communism. Can you explain your comment I’m just curious

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          Trying to get rid of Zelensky now is russian propaganda when only a small part of the country are able to vote. It would strip the democratic rights away from those living in captured territory.

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            5 months ago

            Don’t pretend this is about the people in Donetsk or Luhansk. Like those people had any democratic rights before the war…

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      Under the Ukrainian constitution, they cannot hold an election while martial law is under effect. Much of the population (a majority?) is either displaced or in an occupied territory.

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        Those were the parts of the country they were ethnically cleansing anyway. Besides, they banned the political parties that were popular there.

        And they already voted. To join Russia.