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Re:Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' by bausson on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:52AM (#6178319)
Couldn't find the reply button (new account, first post, after two years as a leacher)

With my limited knowledge in history, I can't objectively compare the spirit/motivations of USA/URSS intervention.

Also, being raised in Western europe, I may be prejudicied, because of the "winners write history" stuff.

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Re:Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' by mpyne on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:15AM (#6179007)
> Also, being raised in Western europe, I may be prejudicied, because of the "winners write history" stuff.

That doesn't invalidate the possibility that the winners might have actually been in the right though. It just means you cann't use the fact that a nation won to implicate that the nation was therefore morally right.

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