Our societies are already convinced those are dictatorships.
But it took Snowden and Assange to show us how deeply messed up our societies are.
It's very possible they are both Russian assets, but what they reported have been verified, and we needed to know it.
The way you are reacting is close to a religious interpretation of the world. It's not us VS them. It's not a football match.
We have a society to build, and it's been taken from us, one piece at a time. If we don't want to end up like Russia, we need all info we can get.
And given the huge price they paid for it, yes, I consider them heroes. And I think history will remember them as such.
