- Moreover, the government was very permissive of the Red Guards, and even allowed the Red Guards to inflict bodily harm on people viewed as dissidents.
- It is no coincidence that in the Soviet press of those years he was compared with Hitler, and the “red guards” — with the assault detachments of the NSDAP.
- The end result was establishment of the Red Guard,[1] a group composed of soldiers chosen from the old Guard's best and most loyal members.
- By 1967, the government attempted to reign in the Red Guards. The military, led by Lin Biao, forcibly suppressed more radical factions of the group.
- On August 18, 1966, a million “Red Guards” were brought to a rally (the first of eight) organized by Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, in Tienanmen Square.
- The first Red Guards groups were made up of students, ranging from as young as elementary school children up to university students.
- Albert Rhys Williams was much more critical of the Red Guards: "The Revolution was not everywhere powerful enough to check the savage passions of the mobs.
- It was the Red Guard that guaranteed, in the October insurrection, the occupation of public buildings and the Winter Palace, base of Kerensky’s government.
- Red Guards broke into the homes of the wealthy and destroyed paintings, books, and furniture; all were items that they viewed as part of the Four Olds.
- 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).