Question

During the Cultural Revolution, why were people sent to “re-education” camps?

to be punished for committing a crime.
to learn how to follow the rules of society.
to be punished for believing in communism.
to learn to become good Communists.

Answer 1

to learn to become good Communists.

Re‑education camps during the Cultural Revolution were used to indoctrinate, "reform" and punish those labeled as counter‑revolutionaries, intellectuals, or having "bourgeois" tendencies by forcing political study and manual labor to make them conform to Maoist/Communist ideology.