White Guard

The term White Guard may refer to:

  • White Guard (Finland), part of the White Army of the 1918 Finnish Civil War
  • White Guard (Slovenia), part of the Axis collaborators in Slovenia during the Second World War
  • Military arm of the Russian White movement
  • The White Guard, a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the Russian White movement


Famous quotes containing the words white and/or guard:

    “Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind
    I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed
    and the wood were white and my night mind
    saw such strange happenings, untold and unreal.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:3.