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Illegally though, most of citizens voted against in a referendum that was just ignored.
Yep, that's also true. My point was more along the lines of Michael Parenti's, where the so-called totalitarian USSR never seemed to need blood to overturn it. Can definitely see how it would be counter-productive to use it as a point, though.