Red Guards
Red Guards may refer to one of the following.
Communist uses
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Red Guards (Finland) , during the Finnish Civil War
*Red Guards (Russia) , during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War
*Red Guards (Bavaria) , in theBavarian Soviet Republic
*Red Guards (Hungary) , in theHungarian Soviet Republic (1918-1919)
*TheRed Guards (China) , composed largely of students and were formed under an already established state to advance the interests of one faction of the Communist Party of China against other factions, during the Cultural Revolution
*TheRed Guard Party (United States) , a militant Chinese-American civil rights grouped closely modeled after the Black PanthersOther uses
*The fictional
Emperor's Royal Guard , elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe, also sometimes referred as "Red Guards"
*Redguard , the fictional race in the popular "Elder Scrolls" game series
*TheKrathin Daeng or "Red Guard", one of the more well known death squads active in Thailand in the 1970s
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