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!
Gusanos aren't exactly reliable sources. You don't know why they left their countries (even if you think you do, you don't really). Many of them are just enamored with muh treats (see the old :so-true: defector in a supermarket!! BS) because of Western propaganda and don't have a real ideological reason for leaving.
I know a Cuban lady that unironically told me that her nannies raised her in a mansion and evil Castro took them away from her by exiling her family, and it was like losing her mothers. Unfun fact, those nannies were unpaid slaves because their husbands were employed by her family in some other facet and were a 'package deal' as she called it
I know a very nice gusano who goes back to visit family every year. But the best answer I've ever gotten out of them is "its different there"