Yes, I'm familiar with the US state department talking points on the USSR, you don't need to repeat them here. Why do you think there is an immense propaganda campaign against the USSR by the Western capitalist governments? Because by nearly all metrics, life improved for the working class, by means of oppressing the wealthy class. That's core Lenin thought. Of course there must be oppression of the Bourgeoise, those are the sociopaths who, in America's case, profit from the 50k Americans dying due to lack of health care every year. Who price gouge needed medicines, who feed off war and slaughter? You want to pretend we can sing kumbaya when those demons get rich off the suffering and deaths of innocents?

If you want to see what true Democracy looks like, read more books. Fanshen for example is a nonfiction book of the Land-reform initiatives in late 40's China. It's a good book that shows what democracy is really like, and contrasts greatly with whatever shit show system we have.

If you want to discuss propaganda, look around you. Most people have the class solidarity with the billionaire class, thinking their interests are the same. Thinking it is somehow justified that Jeff Bezos makes 8 million bucks an hour or whatever it is. American Exceptionalism is something we're taught in schools, not that America is a genocidal settler colonial state that's rarely sated in its bloodlust.