People who grew up under such regimes are fairly ingenious about getting around censorship. The more the government tries to clamp down, the more people want to

People who grew up under such regimes are fairly ingenious about getting around censorship. The more the government tries to clamp down, the more people want to know and they will find ways around the censorship. People talk. My grandmother passed down first hand accounts of her living through the Japanese occupation during WWII. There are also stories passed down from the Cultural Revolution, etc. Believe me, the Chinese know something happened in 1989 at Tiananmen. Hong Kong has been a torch bearer in keeping memories of those events alive. Now the better question is if many Chinese still care in face of growing prosperity and what version of the "truth" they have.