Red Guards

Cultural  

1. Loosely organized bands of militant communists who followed Mao Zedong in attacking conservative or bourgeois elements in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.

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Saturday’s marches of the Red Guards included huge columns of motorcycles, anti-tank rockets towed by tractors and civilian-style trucks equipped with multiple rocket launchers, according to KCNA’s text reports and photos.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

"We were taught to denounce our heritage, and Red Guards destroyed anything that is not communist…statues, books and anything else," she continued.

From Fox News ● Jun. 10, 2021

A lone person or a family struggles against an ominously exotic backdrop populated by Red Guards, famines and the Chinese gulag.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2019

In 1966 and 1967, my father took photos of mass meetings and rallies of Red Guards and the P.L.A. in front of the Potala Palace.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2016

“Your father and Uncle Tian thought this would help me relax. I can sit in the park all day, and then even if the Red Guards come, I’ll be safe here.”

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang