Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      China heavily censors Weibo, too. Remember that train crash? And everyone was sharing the truth on Weibo, the official narrative was clearly lies, and then the director of the rail bureau said something like, "I don't care whether you believe it or not, I believe it" and was widely ridiculed for lying again? Yeah, they learned a lot from that. That will never be allowed to happen again, the Party's honesty being shown in a bad light like that.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        guy got fired btw, when similar happened here stock prices went up and all was ignored

          • kristina [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            so a fate worse than death. the chinese are so cruel, fully on board with western propaganda now