Ive heard from more than one person with relatives living in Crimea (one getbigger and a couole coworkers), that the russian mikitary basicallt forced crimeans to vote to join russia, and literally no option existed to stay part of the Ukraine. . Basically were told 'if yoi dont vote to become russian again, you wont live/have homes to return too.
And their 2 voting options were 'join russia', or 'leave Ukraine'.
so before yall go talking about how democratic this was, you may want to actually talk to some Crimeans....
Putin had some pics snapped of smiling Russians he bussed in to vote as well, and BAM, hes a hero.