[talmand]

That's odd, I grew up on the tail end of the Cold War and it seems to me that much of Snowden's accusations of the antics of the US government is up there with the propaganda from the US government itself as to why the Soviet Union was bad.

For a generation that grew up with something like East Berlin and the Berlin Wall thinking that government surveillance isn't bad makes me wonder what level does one have to get to before it's considered bad for the people.

For those that did not live through or remember the Soviet Union collapse and the fall of the Berlin Wall leading to German unification I can understand. It's hard for current generations to understand how truly awful WWII was for the human race as a whole, they simply cannot relate.