Victims of The Cultural Revolution

I’m reading the book of my long ago communicant, Wang Youqin, and all of my old wonder and bafflement and confusion about how the Cultural Revolution could have occurred has come back to me. How it did happen, “what” happened, even “why” it happened we all get by now. But no scholar, Chinese or non, that I have read understands the “How could it have happened?” The answer to that question lies in something unfathomably deep in China’s soul.