Discuss what the uncensored official memory of the CCP is since their victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

The uncensored official memory of the CCP is the memory of important events that have occurred under the CCP's control that have not had details of the events or their consequences forgotten for the sake of propaganda reasons to promote the ideology of the CCP. The official memory has stifled students, intellectuals and other members of Chinese society to freely challenge traumatic events that have occurred during the CCP's time in power since 1949 and means that true accounts of these events are repressed in Chinese society. This has led to the official view from the Party to control how their history is seen, and an unofficial view of these events of which many members of its society are still alive to remember. Such events which have an official and unofficial memory include the Great Leap Forward from 1958-61, the Cultural Revolution from 1966-76 and the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. The desire to create an official memory begun before they came to power in 1949 during the Japanese occupation from 1931-45. They would pursue the idea of the KMT (the Nationalists) being weak and ineffective in power in preventing Japanese imperialism which had led initially to the creation of the puppet state Manchukuo in the northeast of China before Japanese power proliferated quickly from 1937 onwards. Whilst the KMT tried to fight the Japanese on their own and refusing the Communists help, this helped Mao and the Communists create an ideology and directive through guerrilla warfare in the vast countryside to show how they were more effective in preventing Japanese imperialism, even though Mao's tactics alone did not force the Japanese to surrender in 1945. This creation of memory was used in the Great Leap Forward, which led to the deaths of tens of millions in what has become known as the Great Famine. While historians such as Frank Dikotter count the deaths to be as many as 45 million to die from starvation, the CCP call this a period of 'natural disaster' as they tried to transform the agrarian society into a socialist society through collectivisation and rapid industrialisation in order to consolidate their power after the 1957 Hundred Flowers Campaign. Calling the period one of 'natural disaster' therefore takes the blame away from the CCP's policies. Whilst the Cultural Revolution has been acknowledged by the CCP to have brought disaster to the people of China in Mao's attempts to remove bourgeois elements from society which gravely affected the economy of China during this period, reformer Deng Xiaoping summed up Mao's policies as making 'Mao 70% good, 30% bad'. The official view separates the revolutionary work done by Mao in the 1930/40s to his work in the Cultural Revolution, and the official party view now dominates the historiography of this period. This aims not to discredit Mao's image and ideology too much despite the tragedies it caused, and uses the acknowledgement of some failures to justify their new policies. The Tiananmen Square Protests, where the CCP's one party rule was being challenged to introduce more democratic elements into society as well as reforming the economy and allowing freedom of press and speech, served again to show how the CCP have constructed an official memory for its society to follow. It has forbidden discussion of the protests and their violent response to them, which led to the banning of newspapers, publishers and controversial films or books. This restriction does not allow future generations to discuss or debate the legality or morality of such actions and creates a taboo amongst this and other events in its society where private discussions can only be held in trying to understand and learn from these traumatic events. The uncensored official memory of the CCP's history aims to reveal the true realities of some of its most important and defining moments of its history yet the official view still manages to suppress these memories today in order to conform to a positive CCP ideology.