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Kremlin Mouthpieces Celebrate Julian Assange Victory Vs. the U.S. ‘Deep State’

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from a British prison could not have made Russia’s top propagandists happier.

RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan led the pack early Tuesday with a statement on Telegram paying tribute to the “best journalist of our time.” Noting that she was “awfully happy” to finally see Assange win his freedom, she recalled a one-on-one covert chat she said she had with him once in the “woods outside London.” After asking him why he chose to publish a trove of classified U.S. military intel knowing that he would be “hunted down, corralled, destroyed” as a result, she said, Assange responded, “I just can’t stand being lied to.”

“Today, he is free for the first time in years. Almost free,” Simonyan wrote.

Read more at The Daily Beast.