The best propaganda (really the only good propaganda) is true.

You can see a lot of this in western propaganda, but a lot of it is just the propaganda accusing the other side of what the west is actually doing.

So yeah, it could be that the story is true. It could also be that it's just the west accusing others of what they are/were doing like it happens a lot. Or it could even be both cases, but this isn't evidnce of anything (although I would be very surprised if the projection hypothesis isn't true).