How do you figure that? The CCP maintained a staggering number of historical and cultural artifacts for decades. What's so special about these that they would want to destroy them? Can you explain why you would view their destruction as logical?

I understand the cultural revolution did result in the destruction of history but people seem to wildly overstate its extent.

Because red guard destroyed them and hung the bourgeois trying to keep them safe.

All the art in Beijing summer palace is fake. It got destroyed by these folk's. Same story all over China.