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!
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