Poking around on Crimea 1/2
I was looking for information around the vote taken in Crimea that made them part of the Russian Federation. It turns out that the 'west' and all of the 'global' interests declared the vote as 'illegal' while the 'east' was very accepting of the result.
I found a question on Quora on this topic and the responses were enlightening so say the least. These responses are more than 4 years old, so they have no reference or bias to the current Ukraine situation and I found them interesting.
Original: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Crimea-vote-to-join-Russia-for-the-unification
Archive: https://archive.ph/Okqw0