It is known that what were called "the Red Guards" were in fact a mass Student-Led paramilitary social movement that was actually activated and guided by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, amid the main period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which Mao himself had instituted. According to a Red Guard pioneer, the development's points were:
<em>"Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red Guards, who can stop us? First we will make China Maoist from inside out and then we will help the working people of other countries make the world red...And then the whole universe."</em>
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You can say that they existed to persecute individuals who were not completely supportive of Mao's ideals
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. ... These states employed relatively large mercenary armies, and the war ... more of a continuation of the France–Habsburg rivalry for European political ..... introduced by the armies, which has been vividly described by Manzoni.
The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene (at 11,700 calendar years BP) and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period.
