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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Example Sentences

Then again, you almost have to feel for Sen. Schumer as he is forced to endure struggle sessions with the party’s Mamdani Red Guards.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hundreds of thousands died in purges often led by youth militias known as the Red Guards.

From BBC

In a recent essay, author and university professor Zhang Sheng noted that “in the past people summoned the Red Guards, now people summon the ‘little pinks’” – a popular nickname for the virtual army of online nationalists.

From BBC

Her desire for a global tabula rasa outstrips that of even the most fanatical Red Guards, who still dominate her mental landscape.

From New York Times

During the Cultural Revolution, a turbulent decade beginning in 1966, she endured beatings from Maoist “red guards” due to her family’s previous “landlord” status.

From Washington Times