Red Guards
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Key facts
- Founder
- Chairman Mao Zedong
- Leaders
- Gang of Four and Cultural Revolution Group (until 1968 )
- Country
- China
- Allegiance
- Mao Zedong (ceremonial figurehead)
- Motives
- Preserving the revolutionary ideology of Mao Zedong and his position within the Chinese Communist Party
- Active regions
- Throughout much of China, particularly in Beijing and other urban areas
- Ideology
- Maoism
- Political position
- Far-left
- Notable attacks
- Red August (including the Daxing Massacre , the Guangxi Massacre , the Inner Mongolia incident ; the Guangdong Massacre ; the Yunnan Massacres ; and the Hunan Massacres )
- Status
- Forcefully suppressed by the PLA
- Size
- 11 to 12 million high school and university students, among other followers or supporters
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Encyclopedic overview
The Red Guards (Chinese: 红卫兵; pinyin: hóng wèibīng) were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolition in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.
According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows:
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