C. Romania was as bad, it was probably worse tbf. One of my best mates in secondary school was a political refugee from there after the coup thanks to her father. They had a slow leak of media in from the rest of the world. North Korea has the internet.
From what I’ve seen/read whilst they have the internet they cannot access anything the regime doesn’t allow them to.
I saw something recently with two young girls, maybe 20, and they were astonished at a smuggled DVD showing “yellow hair people” from Europe.
I can’t imagine Romania was as bad.