For me, that the Cold War began with the US wanting to stop Stalin's plans of imposing communism on the world. Did anybody else's curriculum portray Trotsky in a positive light? lmao it's funny to imagine the weirdos who write those textbooks were trots.
I think people born in the 80s in China tend to be particularly more lib than previous and later generations. The sort of general zeitgeist of the 80s was indeed very Deng