alt Hacker News> The truth gets through.
It often doesn't at all, drowned amongst lies.
And sometimes it takes a lifetime or two.
It took Boris Yeltsin, who had just become the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, actually visiting a random grocery store in Houston before he realised what the truth was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to...
most common people were aware of the cliff in economy between capitalist and communist states. Hence we had so many revolution and communism lost.
This was a communist apparatchik. Its like showing truth to MAGA people. Most wont accept it.