Chinese psyche

On Mao's Cultural Revolution, and how the years of suffering affected Chinese people's psyche and thinking, including that of the father of Distator Xi, and the totally contrary thinking of the dictator himself.

If I understand the article right, the women in the Educated Youth Friendship Group are hardly "fond" of the lives they led during the Cultural Revolution. On the contrary, it says they are pretending together to live the "normal" adolescence that the Cultural Revolution denied them in real life.