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!
There was this documentary on Cuba on Netflix that one of my housemates (whose family was Cuban) wanted to watch. We watched it. It was basically a white dude from the US going to Cuba, pointing at the lack of food and endemic poverty and going, "Muy malo, verdad?" Literally at no point in the nearly 2 hour documentary are sanctions and the military blockade brought up. I was fucking baffled.
That's what propoganda looks like.
Amazing