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:

    “The symmetrical piles of white bodies,
    the round white breast-shapes of the heaps,
    the smell of the smoke, the dogs the wires the
    rope the hunger. It had happened to others.
    There was a word for us. I was: a Jew.”
    —Sharon Olds (b. 1942)

    “Those that I fight I do not hate,
    Those that I guard I do not love;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)