Extraordinary piece of propaganda but well targeted and therefore worth watching to understand what it means and who it is addressed to.
Edward Snowden let the world know about the rot at the core of the so-called "free" society. That much is acknowledge quickly both in the introduction and in the conclusion. But that's definitively NOT the subject. Just an unfortunate thing that happened and that you are obliged to mention, almost like a small print legal notice on the back of a pharmaceutical advertising.
The subject is the man himself who betrayed his country for "utopic?" freedom principle and ended up trading his idyllic life in Hawaii for, let's call it for what it is, a semi-goulag, in the suburb of Moscow.
Think grey 1992 communist blocks (with shared kitchen? The video doesn't say.) where a VPN is necessary to access forbidden Western applications (Like in the UK, right? Although over there even the VPN are about to become unlawful.) Where border guards can request access to your mobile. (Not like the US, right?) Where the Media are not free and foreign media are forbidden. (Unlike Germany where you can be prosecuted just for watching RT?) Russia a terrible country where over 2 million people have left since 2022 and where Snowden can escape the draft as a new citizen only because he is a "special" guest.
Once you're past the naked propaganda (Do these people have been to Moscow lately or do their knowledge of the country ended with a Soviet documentary in the late 1980s?), you can actually and amazingly invert ALL the arguments and every single point fits like a glove the recent reality of most Western countries.
So why did they bother to make this blatant documentary about the "dismal" reality of the life of Edward Snowden, rich, most certainly but what does it mean to be rich in such a bleak suburb? (They didn't even mentioned how cold it can be in winter. Almost as bad as in Canada?)
Clearly, what they worry about is another Snowden. A fairly normal guy who day after day witnesses the lying and rot of the system and decides that enough is enough. At least, if Snowden was still in the US, he would be punished "according to the law", not risk being arrested by random KGB officials in the cold streets of Moscow and be disappeared. (The CIA would never do something like that!)
The sad thing is that these people are both ignorant and less intelligent then the specialists they want to dissuade. Maybe in the end, this is the lesson and the hope: As long as a system is managed by imbeciles, there is hope that it can be defeated, even and especially by brilliant individuals like Edward Snowden.
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