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!
Local politics is very vibrant in China, at one point I translated and covered a protest group in Yunnan that demanded the demolition of botched capitalist housing projects in favor of low income housing in Kunming, and they succeeded in their demands and replaced the people in charge of the decision. Those demolitions were all over Western media as a sign of China failing, but in reality it was a sign of democracy in action and the failures of the capitalist class in China and the support of government action
I'm too lazy to search my own posts tho