Red Guards (Russia)
Red Guards (Russian: Красная гвардия) were paramilitary volunteer formations consisting mainly of factory workers and partially of soldiers and sailors for "protection of the Soviet power". Red Guards were a transitional military force of the collapsing Imperial Russian Army. Most of them were formed in the time frame of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and some of the units were reorganized into the Red Army in 1918. The Red Guards formations were organized across most of the former Russian Empire, including territories outside of the contemporary Russian Federation such as Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, others.
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Famous quotes containing the words red and/or guards:
“How red the rose that is the soldier’s wound,
The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all
The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood,
The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)