In a trance from China TV dramas

I have a weakness for China made TV dramas in a historical setting especially those during the pre and post WWII China (in particular with CCP vs KMT conflict and civil war). Recently I watched 2 of such, "Red Dust" on Starhub and "Huang Yanpei" on dvd. Since both are made in China there is of course loads of KMT slandering. Refusing to adopt a more objective view, I just enjoyed believing that Chiang Kai Shek is a true villain.

Inevitably, however, I would walk away after these shows thinking about the lives of ordinary people in China during that era. Of course my perception is obtained mainly from such dramas and the limited modern Chinese history I took in school and may in no way represent the real facts.  Nevertheless I am always kept pondering about the Chinese people who had to make decisions in 1949 whether to flee to Taiwan, HK and overseas or to remain in China. In particular I wonder how those intellectuals who remained (believing in the making of a better society under Communist rule) and later suffered the persecutions during the Cultural Revolution would have felt about the road they had chosen.

I imagined to myself 2 persons, one a corrupt official under KMT who amassed enough wealth to flee overseas versus perhaps an academician or engineer who remained in China to help rebuild a new country but who was later declared a counter revolutionist by the Red Guard and persecuted. If I were in the latter's shoes where my best intentions lead to disaster, what philosophy in life or approach I would need to adopt to lessen the feeling of painful injustice in destinies.