I live in a country with almost 80 million people and 99% percent of the population (this is optimistic) has never heard of Snowden. The country is Turkey therefore this may sound irrelevant but actually it can suggest that the real source of harm is not the opposing people, but the ignorant.

Some reports:

About freedom: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2016/turkey

About education: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2015-results-in-focus.pdf