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There is nothing more reviled by people who were born during the cold war than a criminal who defects first to china and then to russia. No amount of tech industry pr can facilitate a comeback from that. Almost half of the people in this country will always see Snowden as a traitor.

I was born during the cold war.

I remember the outrage when it was found that the East German secret police (the Stasi) had files on 1/3 of the population of East Germany.

I remember the commentators telling us how no one in the Western, Free world would ever stand for it, and how it could never happen.



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