Cabbage for Votes

[AkMike]

Cabbage for Votes



Diehard fans of the USSR lined up to receive free cabbage and other cheap vegetables on their way to the polls. Free cabbage got the participants so worked up, they managed to produce 100.1% of votes for the candidates. Afterwards, they gathered to celebrate pseudo-elections in classic Soviet fashion, with music, free food and burly gunmen.

Women in blue aprons gave out free bags of vegetables and homemade pastries to those who registered to vote and cast ballots. In a surreal Soviet-like atmosphere, men with accordions and saxophones entertained their captive audience, reminiscent of the violins being played aboard the sinking Titanic. As polls closed in Donetsk, separatists gathered at Lenin Square for a concert entitled, "How it was in the good old days."


http://www.examiner.com/list/c...ass-crimea-part-deux

http://mashable.com/2014/11/02...rn-ukraine-election/

[AC]

Cabbage for Votes



Diehard fans of the USSR lined up to receive free cabbage and other cheap vegetables on their way to the polls. Free cabbage got the participants so worked up, they managed to produce 100.1% of votes for the candidates. Afterwards, they gathered to celebrate pseudo-elections in classic Soviet fashion, with music, free food and burly gunmen.

Women in blue aprons gave out free bags of vegetables and homemade pastries to those who registered to vote and cast ballots. In a surreal Soviet-like atmosphere, men with accordions and saxophones entertained their captive audience, reminiscent of the violins being played aboard the sinking Titanic. As polls closed in Donetsk, separatists gathered at Lenin Square for a concert entitled, "How it was in the good old days."


http://www.examiner.com/list/c...ass-crimea-part-deux

http://mashable.com/2014/11/02...rn-ukraine-election/

Mike neither of those links work.

[AkMike]

Try these;

http://www.examiner.com/list/cabbage-republic-of-donbass-crimea-part-deux

http://mashable.com/2014/11/02/eastern-ukraine-election/

At Mashable they found your missing socks! LMAO!!!

[AC]

Try these;

http://www.examiner.com/list/cabbage-republic-of-donbass-crimea-part-deux

http://mashable.com/2014/11/02/eastern-ukraine-election/

At Mashable they found your missing socks! LMAO!!!

Perhaps Putin is right when he claims to have little to no control over these thugs:



"DNR leadership hopes for similar armed uprising in Russia"

"In the meantime, the top “leader” of the Donetsk National Republic (DNR) told Shaun Walker of the Guardian that he “hates most of DNR leadership and wishes them dead” and that “he hopes for similar armed uprising in Russia.” Having sown the wind in the Cabbage Republic of Donbass, Putin should be prepared to reap the tempest back at home."

[Photo Guy]

What will the 'uprisings' be about? Is it about fighting corruption at the top? The power of the oligarchs?

[AkMike]

Breaking NEWS FLASH!!


 In the exit polls from the vote yesterday.. Cabbage lost out to spuds!

 Followed closely by onions and then carrots. 

[AC]

Residents in Lugansk complain that they were forced to vote in pseudo elections:


http://www.unian.info/politics/1004352-luhansk-residents-say-they-were-forced-to-vote-in-pseudo-elections.html