I hadn’t thought of that. The natural inclination of teenagers is to rebel. Combine that fact with overload indoctrination and this is what you get. Wish that same reaction was happening on college campuses today.
It took a couple of generations in Russia.
Today, in China, although they give lip service to the Party, they are mostly concerned with stability and standard of living. The Chinese I spoke to all agree that the Mao Cultural Revolution, where the Red Guards ran wild, was a big mistake.
We’re in the first generation of the full flowering of this idiocy.