Truth, lie, history, what does it all matter? Civilization is but a set of lies agreed upon by its component members. The West believes in the fiction of freedom, democracy, equality, rights, and some such nonsense to dull the peasants into cooperating with their betters. The CCP is more obtuse and brutal in their sociopolitical control mechanism. The older, more civilized societies used religion and moral fiction to guide the masses into cooperation. Human social organization always opetates in hierarchy with power as its only coin. The only choice for the masses is acquiescing to more elegant or more obtuse means of control. More the lesser men are allotted influence, more obtuse the control mechanism devolves.