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Depends on how the party handled people, who pointed out, that ther direction was changed. Did they pat them on the back and say "Yea, funny old times, but thankfully the people figured out a way to make writing even better" or did they just beat them and their family until they stopped talking about capitalist heresy?
It is easy to forget history if nobody is allowed to speak of it.
Right to left is still used in (mainland) China, it is just less common. It is also the more common style in Hong Kong and Taiwan. And, of course, Japanese.