After the Chinese cultural revolution the objective was to eliminate the possibility of second thoughts; of 'counter-revolution', to which end all popular memory that there had ever been alternative system of government in China. There was to be no conceivable alternative to the communist party.
The heritage of Confucius was erased. The imperial system of justice with its strict punishments for corrupt officials was actively destroyed with the middle class who still harbored memory of the ancient Imperial tradition of honor and high ideals.
The CCP eliminated everyone who could remember Chinese history. In the labor camps inmates were conditioned never to speak of the past - or of any time before the revolution except in the most disparaging terms.
Survivors learned to offer enthusiastic testimony to the CP system.
CCP mind control program was so powerful children eagerly fought for the right to execute their own 'backward' relatives.
Many of these children were the offspring of of party members now being disposed of and who were raised outside the family or educated at party schools. The equivalent in western society is children who grow up on the internet whose knowledge of the world is derived from cultist educational curricula and textbooks in public schools and as always, MSM media .