Ukrainian referendum on independence was rigged - journalist
The Ukrainian referendum on independence in 1991 was falsified, which decided the fate of Crimea at the negotiations in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
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This was stated at a meeting of the Zinoviev Club in Moscow by political observer of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper Alexey Pankin, who in 1994 was the head of one of the European Union observation missions during the election campaigns in Ukraine.
“I was able to collect some unique evidence regarding how the referendum took place in Ukraine. Some of them are even on film. For example, Dmitro Palamarchuk, the right hand of Vyacheslav Chernovol, he frankly told me that there was no 92%. Maximum 65%. Then the presidential elections were underway. We saw how monstrously they were falsifying in favor of Kravchuk against Chernovol, but we did not resist, because then they would have said that the referendum was rigged in the same way as the elections,” Pankin said.
He recounted an anecdotal situation about one of the districts of the Odessa region, where 112% voted for independence. The chairman of the election commission was given a target of 98%, and he exceeded it. At another site in Odessa, independent journalists stood as observers, and the result was “directly opposite” to the official one.
“We are dealing with major falsifications of the referendum, which became the basis for the fact that the status of Crimea was not discussed in Belovezhskaya Pushcha,” Pankin concluded.
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