That's what happened in China in the first and second decades after Communists assumed power in 1949. In waves of political movements, many, if not all, of the

That's what happened in China in the first and second decades after Communists assumed power in 1949. In waves of political movements, many, if not all, of the old elites were repressed, exiled and killed. Showing sympathy for them was politically incorrect in those days.