Red Guard
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Red Guard or Redguard may refer to:
Communist groups
- Red Guards (China), composed largely of students during the Cultural Revolution
- Red Guards (Finland), during the Finnish Civil War
- Red Guards (Russia), during the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War
- Red Guard Party, a militant Chinese-American civil rights grouped closely modeled after the Black Panthers
- Red Guards, in the Bavarian Soviet Republic
- Red Guards, in the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1918–1919)
- Young Red Guards Cadet Corps, a paramilitary unit in North Korea
Other groups
- The Red Guard of Senegal, a gendarmerie in charge of presidential security
- The Krathin Daeng or Red Gaurs, death squads active in Thailand in the 1970s, which have been mistakenly referred to as "Red Guards"
Fictional uses
- Emperor's Royal Guard, fictional elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe, also sometimes referred as "Red Guards"
- The Red Guard (novel), a 1967 novel in the Killmaster series of spy novels
- Redguards, a fantasy race of The Elder Scrolls universe
- The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, a 1997 computer game based in the Elder Scrolls Universe, which was named for Redguards
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