It did not “beat COVID”. COVID is not over. People are dying and being disabled by it every day.
Beating COVID would have mean actually taking it seriously, maybe eradicting it, atleast having the vast majority of people vaccinate, mask and properly ventilate.
If anything we’re worse than the start of the pandemic now. A third of europe believes in anti-vaccine conspiracies.
Propaganda is describing how authoritarian countries treat their minorities, apparently.