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Demonstrators display Red flags, banners reading "Referendum", "Russia help!" and a high portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with the words "Defender of Holy Russia" during a massive rally in support of the Crimean referendum in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. In a referendum watched closely around the world, residents in Ukraine's strategic Crimean Peninsula voted Sunday on whether to demand greater autonomy or split off and seek to join Russia. The vote has been condemned as illegal by the United States and European countries.(AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov)