This is rubbish. The UK isn't keeping Assange inside the embassy for the USA, we're doing it because we follow the rule of law - he breached his bail after exp

This is rubbish. The UK isn't keeping Assange inside the embassy for the USA, we're doing it because we follow the rule of law - he breached his bail after exploring the full extent of the appeals process around his extradition. Russia recently put a dead lawyer, who had died in jail, on trial in order to discredit him. He'd been jailed after uncovering corruption. All manner of other incredibly unsavoury stuff goes on in modern Russia. Compared with the USSR modern Russia is slightly more liberal. Assange and Snowden may raise the spectre of execution because a few blowhard Congressmen mention it - whereas the USSR repeatedly actually executed those who spoke out. They even still do - compare Alexander Litvinenko with Snowden or Assange. America isn't perfect, and indeed has been acting in a way prejudicial to its own interests for a while. That does not make it the USSR, and to do so is ignorant, undermines your case and exposes you as someone using hyperbole to cover up the ability to make a rational argument.