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not exactly. Puyi was 6 when he was overthrown so not a man and too young to be selfish or cruel, but they did make him a gardener
His vanity (fueled by a British orientalist who was often with him as a small child) then led to him accepting the Japenese offer to become the emperor of Manchukuo, the Japanese built a cult of personality around him to build loval loyalty to their satellite state. He was too privileged to dare escaping the gilded cage he had put himself in and was constantly paranoid about upsetting the Japanese, only escaping once the Red Army was coming. He then succesfully lied about not being complicit in Japanese war crimes, otherwise he would have been simply executed. He was also immature and an overall asshole in person.
It was a very big deal that the communist were able to successfully rehabilitate such a person.