DPR Civilians On Why They Wanted A Referendum To Join Russia

My overview of the DPR referendum to join Russia. It’s mainly the people themselves talking, over the course of 5 days, including door-to-door voting (no, not at gunpoint) and voting in voting stations on the 5th day. Western commentators would do well to listen to them (but we know they won’t). Summary: -they waited 8 years for this -they are tired of being bombed by Ukraine, they want peace & feel joining Russia will bring this -they were not intimidated or forced to vote, many (like Syrians) faced potential shelling in order to do so, many volunteered in order to ensure the referendum went ahead -they’ve long since given up caring what western commentators & “news“ say about them (the same who whitewashed Ukraine’s 8 years of war crimes against the civilians of the Donbass). For my commentary, see this recent interview: RELATED: First scenes of voting in the referendum yes