Decades of propaganda does take a toll. The truth is limited or an unknown, eventually, when propaganda is all the People hear. Imagine if the truth was told. Would the truth also be rejected as propaganda?
I remember the first story about the Brits and censorship, probably 30 years ago. One of them said something like “We never had something like a First Amendment because we never needed it.” Now the Brits would even make Gerbils blush.