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Red Guards A massive crowd of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, enthusiastically wave copies of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, with government buildings and red balloons in the background. Red Guards and Chinese revolutionary youth Song Binbin pins a Red Guard armband on Mao Zedong's sleeve as they stand together on the Tiananmen Rostrum, with a large crowd visible in the background.
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Red Guards A Chinese elementary-school textbook shows a group of Red Guards. Red Guards were young people who supported Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

Red Guards

Chinese history
Also known as: Hongweibing, Hung-wei-ping
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Red Guards, in Chinese history, groups of militant university and high school students formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). These young people, such as student leader Song Binbin , often wore green jackets similar to the uniforms of the Chinese army at the time, with red armbands attached to one of the sleeves. They were formed under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1966 in order to...

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