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- noun history Red Guards, a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in
China , who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during theCultural Revolution .
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From Mandarin trad. 紅衛兵, simpl. 红卫兵 (pinyin: hóngwèibīng) (red defense soldier or red guard)
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