"...that they're actually deliberately flaring off those public feelings." It doesn't seem necessary. The USSR didn't flare off public sentiment -the CCP doesn

"...that they're actually deliberately flaring off those public feelings." It doesn't seem necessary. The USSR didn't flare off public sentiment -the CCP doesn't. In the USSR, the leadership saw that the system was a dead-end and took it upon itself to winddown/transform even before the people were ready. There were "subcultures" but they were no threat to the system.