The Red Guard were Chinese people chosen to terrorize other Chinese people suspected of being “black”, “rightist”, “capitalist readers”, ”counterrevolutionary”, or “Imperialist”. The main topics I want to discuss in this paper are the main Duties of the Red Guard, The ways the Red Guard affected the people, and the way the Red Guard Factions fought with each other.

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“That summer things got even worse in Changsha: The Rebels began to fight among themselves. Those who had once been comrades became mortal enemies, and the streets of Changsha ran with blood in the hundred-degree heat of August. The Cultural Revolution lost all connection with its original crackdown on anti-Socialist elements, now long forgotten. A civil war was going on, with each side claiming to love Chairman Mao better than the other, to be protecting his Revolutionary line against the policies that threatened it. Both sides were willing to die for the right to wield power under Chairman Mao’s name.”(Heng 132)

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