The choices on the ballot were to join Russia or wait a year and then join Russia. If you have armed men come to your house and tell you to sign a piece of pape

The choices on the ballot were to join Russia or wait a year and then join Russia. If you have armed men come to your house and tell you to sign a piece of paper, that's not a vote. The purpose of the exercise is not even to attempt a legalistic show of unity. Its only purpose is to mock the very concept of voting, freedom, self determination, a future of anything other than state terrorism.