The Culture Revolution

Was The Culture Revolution a good thing for China? I believe that it was not. In the movie "To Live" The main charter's wife was giving birth and there was no doctors there to help or at least not experienced ones. This drives me insane. If my wife was giving birth to my only child i would want the safest way to have a baby. The ironic part of this was that she was married to a red guard who enforced communism on china and took it very extremely.  The culture Revolution put elites at the bottom and the poor up. So there is constant change in whos at top and who is at the bottom. This relates to cards shuffling on a deck. At one second a kings on top and the next a 3 of spades. Until the person who is shuffling the deck dies and the 3 of spades are no longer on top. In fact they are back on the bottom where the king again is back on top.