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7. World from Berlin: 'Snowden Had No Other Choice'
Sun Aug 4, 2013, 12:20 PM
Aug 2013
The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the largest newspaper in the populous Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, writes:

"Snowden is out of the intermediate world of the Moscow airport and has now entered Russia. Russia of all places, a country that is anything but a flawless democracy. A country in which a former intelligence agent rules the country with an iron fist. But to blame the whistleblower for all this would either be malicious or naïve. Snowden had no other choice."

"Go back to the States? The fate of WikiLeaks informant Bradley Manning shows what happens to people there who uncover government misconduct. Not a single country that could claim to be democratically flawless offered Snowden asylum."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-press-review-on-russian-decision-to-give-snowden-asylum-a-914520.html
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