Why do they bother?
It's truly ODD that our Deepstate masters continue to churn out their heavy-handed NoKo-style propaganda while the facts are INSTANTLY available. You don't need to travel, you don't need samizdat sources or shortwave radio. Youtube will tell you the facts.
Example: Deepstate constantly hammers home the 'information' that Russia and Brazil are collapsed tyrannies deep in famine.
Try it. Use Bing or Google translator to look up some terms relating to an activity you know, an activity that you can judge accurately. Cars, cooking, candles, whatever. Put those terms or phrases into Youtube in Portuguese or Russian. You'll see lots of prosperous-looking people, well-fed, dressed in new clothing, engaging happily and correctly in the activity or work or hobby you know.
A collapsed economy doesn't support expensive hobbies and well-fed well-clothed cheerful people. It's wildly unlikely that all of these clips have been
staged just to maintain a facade of prosperity and freedom in every conceivable area of life.
By contrast, some of the allegedly prosperous and free countries are unusually
short of such activities. It's much harder to find such clips from Germany or Italy or France.