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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Patriarchy" data-source="post: 64389" data-attributes="member: 162"><h2>KMT won by leaving mainland china to the barbarous retarded monsters </h2><h2>Cultural Revolution: worse for long-run institutional + cultural damage</h2>The Cultural Revolution wasn’t just instability. It was a deliberate social/ideological campaign that kneecapped education and attacked cultural continuity.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Education hit: schools and universities were closed for years, admissions were largely frozen, and the national college entrance exam (gaokao) was cancelled and only resumed in 1977, creating the famous “lost generation” effects.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Culture hit: the “Four Olds” campaign involved destruction/looting of historical artifacts, temples, books, artworks, plus broad persecution of intellectuals and professionals, which has obvious downstream effects on scholarship, preservation, and civic trust.</li> </ul>That combo (education pipeline + cultural heritage + trust) is the kind of damage that echoes for decades because it hits the transmission of skills and memory itself.<h2>KMT governance in the Civil War era: brutal economically, but less structurally “permanent” in culture/education</h2>The KMT’s governance failures did real harm, especially economically, and that absolutely leaves scars. But it’s a different kind of damage, and it doesn’t have the same “burn the library, shut the schools” signature.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hyperinflation + currency collapse: Britannica notes the gold yuan rollout in August 1948 and how the issuance exploded within months, a classic “your savings are now a sad joke” outcome.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Administrative failure/corruption problems around controls: accounts of the period emphasize that attempts at controls and stabilization were undermined by corruption/administrative breakdown, which erodes institutional legitimacy fast.</li> </ul>Long-run comparison: on the mainland, the KMT’s collapse meant its institutions largely didn’t remain to keep inflicting damage; the PRC rebuilt systems under a new regime. The KMT’s failures helped smash confidence and living standards in the short-to-medium term, but the Cultural Revolution attacked the human capital pipeline (education) and cultural continuity (heritage, scholarship), which is exactly the stuff that takes generations to reconstitute.<h3>Verdict (for “C: long-term damage”)</h3>Cultural Revolution is worse by a wide margin, because it systematically degraded education, expertise, cultural preservation, and social trust nationwide for a decade. The KMT era’s governance failures were catastrophic economically, but the Cultural Revolution was the one that took a hammer to the country’s “future productivity + cultural memory” machinery.</blockquote>

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