@sim @nosleep @augustus @lain yes
i wish i could bring you USSR time newspapers for reading comparison, and you would see the differences. so you could understand them deeply.

but the only thing i can tell you is anecdotes

when i was walking in pripyat, ~~2016 i believe it was, i was walking in the pripyat school, famously often shown on photographs as one of the many iconic locations in pripyat. And i walked through class to class, looking at the old classrooms (which looked exactly the same as my own classrooms at home, years 2000's! because everything was exactly the same in the USSR, even 1000km away.) and textbooks of the soviet era. I couldnt read most of them, needed a translator (so, very very very slow), but then i found it

a Soviet English Textbook
and there i could read everything
"The soviet worker is a proud and noble man, greater than any other nation's!"
"The american soldier is poor and fat"

and every page i turn, its like that
"The comitern is working hard to provide a stable future"
"Starvation has been tough in the past, but communism brings us more riches than before in any previous country!"
"This harvest is plentiful!"

and every page and line i looked at in that dusty, old, halfrotten english text book, was like that. you were either a Great Ethnic superhuman (honorary) russian (soviet communist), or you were "them", the other, the evil man who STEALS from the populace (or even worse, a WORK-AVOIDANT PERSON [gulag{exaggerated yet truthful joke}])

i hope i havent written this anecdote before here (or that you havent atleast read it), i hate when i accidentally repeat myself at times at the same person