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They had journalists didn't they?
Unfortunately they struggled to get their message out properly, here's an excellent documentary made by the USSR in the 80s that talks about how the US looks good on TV, but in reality is full of problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIXEy8baulU
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Social media is a different beast though. Many soviet citizens would have assumed that the homelessness in the US was being exaggerated/fabricated by their government, because as far as they knew no modern government would allow such a thing
similar to the taking for granted that comes up in those interviews with residents of the
people in the eastern bloc had little notion of the true depravity of capitalism.
I remember 1989 in Poland where people were excited they will finally get all this colorful shit they seen in USA movies, but they were completely aghast when they were noticing capitalism is taking from them all they took for granted in socialism - jobs, savings, safety, etc etc. They have zero notion what really is capitalism and they didn't believed state media which told them so.
Unfortunately it was too late since by this point everything was already in the hands of compradors and their beloved solidarność turned out to be (always was and still is) CIA tool to subvert and destroy workers power and organization in Poland.