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The Gilets Jaunes of France

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Scout, Dec 9, 2018.

  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    You're wrong on just about every level a person can be wrong on. Yahtzee!

    1. I'm talking about 2014, not 1991. What happened in 1991 was not a "revolution" in Ukraine with a president removed in a coup. After the Soviet Union dissolved, each of the republics held a formal vote of independence.

    But since you foolishly it up . . .

    2. On the same day as Ukraine's 1991 referendum . . .

    The same Leonid Kravchuk who . . .

    Leonid Kravchuk - Wikipedia

    Maybe you're foolishly talking about the March 17, 1991 referendum on whether to preserve the Soviet Union.

    The results . . .

    77.85 percent to preserve the USSR
    22.15 percent to dissolve it.

    That was the only vote held on the issue. And Yeltsin dissolved it anyway.
     
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  2. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Thought you were referring to the Orange Revolution in 04, when outsiders were called into Ukraine
    to monitor the election. Forgive my misunderstanding your post comrade.
     
  3. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    You'll be delighted to know that your eventual pro-West winner of that election was voted out of office six years later with a 4 percent approval rating and 5 percent of the vote.
     
  4. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Yes comrade I am aware of that. W had an approval rating over 80% at one time and below 40% at the end.
     
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