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Stormshot red guard camp12/16/2023 ![]() In an editorial published on June 1, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece newspaper called for “sweeping away all the oxen, ghosts, snakes and spirits”, referring to the “reactionary academic authorities”. A series of editorials in People’s Daily in early June 1967, inflaming and applauding student rebellion, turned the Red Guards into a nationwide phenomenon. The killing was particularly intense in the summer of 1967. (Pianos and nylon stockings were among the bourgeois items targeted.)Īccording to Associated Press: Though the Red Guards movement lasted for just over two years, it was involved in conflicts that claimed 230,000 lives across the country, according to official statistics released in the 1980s. They smashed antiques, burned books, and ransacked private homes. Barbara Demick wrote: The Red Guards persecuted their teachers. ![]() ![]() Red Guard looting a Russian church in Harbinįanatical students, calling themselves Red Guards, responded literally to Mao's call to "bombard the headquarters." Brainwashed by the Communist system and encouraged by Mao, they attacked people who they believed were hostile to Mao and his ideals.
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