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!
Whatever you like, obviously if it has shaky providence I'll call it out, but I'm not going to dismiss an entire outlet outright. I'm not going to claim there aren't cases of people being arrested for actions, but I struggle to think of a country where that doesn't happen and I'm China primarily I would argue they are done for the betterment of the population as a whole who supports the government by a very very large majority.
Russia today is a different story and not a country I'd stick up for like China
I think we're basically on the same page.