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