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'''Red Guards''' were groups of [[Russia|Russian]] armed factory workers, which [[Vladimir Lenin]] organized to march on the [[Winter Palace]] in November 1917. The Red Guards arrested the leader of the Russian provisional government. The Red Guards had over 200,000 personnel and did perform as the regular army between the time of the new Soviet government. The Red Guard demobilized the old Russian military and then the [[Red Army]] was created as a replacement.
'''Red Guards''' was also the name given to the organisations of college students and schoolchildren raised from 1966 to advance the aims of [[Mao Zedong]]'s [[Cultural Revolution]] in [[China]], and numbering perhaps 11 million in total. The Red Guards caused tremendous destruction in China. Teachers, 'intellectuals' and even government ministers were humiliated, beaten and many tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of victims died or committed suicide; the British and Soviet embassies in [[Beijing]] were attacked; libraries and cultural artefacts were destroyed (including the majority of [[Buddhist]] monasteries in [[Tibet]]), and many thousands of people were killed in armed conflict between opposing Red Guard factions in cities across China. After two years of near anarchy Mao called upon the army to restore order in China, and the Red Guards and other urban youth were sent to live on communes in the countryside, to 'learn from the peasants'.
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[[Category:Russia]]
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'''Red Guards''' was also the name given to the organisations of college students and schoolchildren raised from 1966 to advance the aims of [[Mao Zedong]]'s [[Cultural Revolution]] in [[China]], and numbering perhaps 11 million in total. The Red Guards caused tremendous destruction in China. Teachers, 'intellectuals' and even government ministers were humiliated, beaten and many tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of victims died or committed suicide; the British and Soviet embassies in [[Beijing]] were attacked; libraries and cultural artefacts were destroyed (including the majority of [[Buddhist]] monasteries in [[Tibet]]), and many thousands of people were killed in armed conflict between opposing Red Guard factions in cities across China. After two years of near anarchy Mao called upon the army to restore order in China, and the Red Guards and other urban youth were sent to live on communes in the countryside, to 'learn from the peasants'.
[[Category:Military]]
[[Category:Russia]]
[[Category:China]]