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Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive by varjag on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:05AM (#49784420)
I was definitely around in 2013. And it was quite clear at the time there will be government persecution for the leaks, I mean that's why he ran in the first place.

If you stand on the path of martyrdom for your people you should be prepared to follow it to conclusion rather than fleeing to the sworn enemy.

Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive by orbital-decay on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:43AM (#49797501)
Well the sworn frenemy has a crude but fitting idiom for that I suspect you might be familiar with, and Snowden might be too now: пиздеть - не мешки ворочать.

I have huge respect for people that have passed the test of going against their environment and comrades to do what they think is right (even if/when I disagree with it or it harms my interests). You can argue that he was insincere or a double agent (this is definitely wrong), you can argue he's a traitor by endangering people who had nothing to do with it (weak argument IMO), but arguing from an armchair that he must have walked full length is just silly I think. Let's have an extreme and inverted thought experiment to test your views. Imagine someone blows the whistle about FSB's Ryazan sugar [1] today, must he not run and let his head be smashed with a sledgehammer in a prime time TV show?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive by varjag on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:41AM (#49799116)
I have a clear, experience based understanding of my personal limits that makes me feel entitled to comment.

Cowardice is the greatest of the sins for it begets many of the others. Or if you insist on colloquial Russian: не можешь срать - не мучай жопу.