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		boomboomsubban on June 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.... Snowden was fairly famously stopped in Russia as his passport was revoked during a layover to Ecuador. He didn't really choose Russia.

ein0p on June 25, 2024 [–]

He’s a Russian citizen now. He could have gone to Ecuador after he got citizenship, and possibly even before, but I think because he’s not a moron he correctly assumed that he’d end up at a CIA black site within a week of leaving Russia.

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