Given the US incarceration rate now, it'd be not far from truth to say that US is having its own Gulag moment. Just without other Soviet benefits.
Or, notice how ukraine went from "nazi shithole" to "beacon of freedom and democracy" once the war started?
To know how things really are behind the propaganda is basically impossible.
> Of course you will not do that, everyone is a hero on the internet
Well most people don't speak korean…
Start and learn Korean, and then emigrate. Tell us in 30 years time how it went.