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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Millions of North Koreans between the ages of 17 and 60 are listed as Worker-Peasant Red Guards, a national civil defense organization that could be loosely compared to military reserve forces of other countries.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Among her earliest memories is her mother being taken away by Red Guards; both her mother and father were forced into reeducation during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022

"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

It shows him at the Dalai Lama’s summer palace, the Norbulingka, leading a team of Red Guards hanging up a poster on which is written “People’s Park.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2016

“Your father thought of that too. Did you see the mop on the balcony? That’s our sign. If the Red Guards come, the mop won’t be there and I’ll know not to go in.”

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