Are there any studies (or anything other than your opinion) about the generations' state of defense against propaganda. I grew up few miles west of the Iron Cu

Are there any studies (or anything other than your opinion) about the generations' state of defense against propaganda. I grew up few miles west of the Iron Curtain. Near Little Berlin. I was massively brainwashed into believing everything US was great, everything in the GDR was bad/evil. The Eastern Block was only not invading us because of our big friendly brother (Uncle Sam) ensuring our safety. And while there were some truth in it, reality was not so black and white. Not everything in the US was rose colored and perfect. Not everything in the East evil (or just bad policy). Looking back a lot of things were more progressive in the GDR than in Western Germany. Women had way more rights, didn't need consent from husbands to work or open a bank account. Contraceptives and abortion were easier to get and women could leave men without risking poverty. Child care was orders of magnitude better and the school system structured in a way that today experts agreeing that we should have copied much of it instead of implementing the West German system everywhere. Also I missed a lot about the two great wars that was known but never taught in school. So from personsl anecdata I am not so sure my generation is better equipped to deal with propaganda (was born at the end of the 70ies).