u/Cyber_Rambo

I have been told endlessly that almost everything we are taught in the west about Stalin & Mao is capitalist propaganda (a statement I am wholeheartedly willing to believe) and to read other sources, but to go to Soviet or Chinese sources on these subjects; specially ones contemporary to the movements, seems like abandoning mega propaganda machine A for mega propaganda machine B.

Is the scientific, marxist method of looking at things truly just trying to pick who is lying to you slightly less? Or as someone who calls himself a socialist am I meant to just have faith in the socialist words?

To sum this up: What are the sources you guys would refer to when making claims that the things the US says about Stalin; for example, are lies?

Forgive the wording of the question - a more specific example would be : When "fish" began the process of evolving into being able to go onto dry land, how and why did that pathway ever even open up when it is opposite to everything a fish requires to survive?