The goal of every fascist regime such as the CCP is to perpetuate itself, and to do that it must indoctrinate the population against their own best interests. It must make them think that the state is the important thing.
In China, Mao starved tens of millions to death because they had the 'wrong' ideas in their heads, and the expedient thing to do was to get rid of them while indoctrinating a new generation.
And lo and behold, those that lived through Mao's predations now see what they believe to be a miracle that things are so much better now, as long as they knuckle under to the CCP.
They could have been better without all of the killing and suppression. Those things were only necessary for the preservation of the CCP.
In China, Mao starved tens of millions to death because they had the 'wrong' ideas in their heads, and the expedient thing to do was to get rid of them while indoctrinating a new generation.
And lo and behold, those that lived through Mao's predations now see what they believe to be a miracle that things are so much better now, as long as they knuckle under to the CCP.
They could have been better without all of the killing and suppression. Those things were only necessary for the preservation of the CCP.