I remember watching a Sunday morning news article on CBS in like 2002 as a kid, that talked about how ‘evil’ communist Russia ‘executed’ and ‘imprisoned’ people for being religious, and that modern Russia’s sudden boom in religion is only proof that ‘communism is evil’. In school I was only ever taught to believe that communists were always on the side of ‘evil’, often having communism be directly described as such - because the capitalist propaganda machine wants us to truly believe that communism was and is pure ‘evil’.

People in the west are dogmatically propagandized into believing that communism is a terrible ideology that only seeks to starve and kill its citizens. It’s really hard to convince westerners to see passed that, if you want people to realize that they’ve been lied to their entire life, you can only point out contradictions and hope they start asking the right questions to depropagandize themselves. If they can come to accept that American media has totally made up a lot of the bullshit they claimed about Venezuela and Bolivia last year, then maybe you can get them to accept that maybe western media lies often about ‘enemy’ countries, and maybe the USSR isn’t what western media says it was