Original sentence: A common variant showed armed and masked rioters beating police with sticks and bats, which carried the label "legal", whereas an adjacent picture showed a woman dropping a ballot into a ballot box, which carried the label "illegal".Following the Crimean referendum in March, 2014, and in light of the strong support various Western nations had shown the violent protestors in Kiev and the strong opposition these same nations had shown to the Crimean referendum, together with the failure of these nations (who had immediately recognized the new government appointed after the coup in Kiev) to recognize the results of the Crimean referendum, images which satirized the subject of the legality of different methods of changing one's government appeared online