In the summer of 1966, when the Chinese Cultural Revolution had just began, a group of youth supporters of Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing became the first group of Red Guards, claiming the mission of helping Mao to unify China into a society where all people followed the same ideas. The Red Guards expanded and led China into the first period of chaos in the Revolution, leaving a bloody print in China’s Communist history that is never to be forgotten.
Thesis:
According to Mao Zedong, he was to enforce the creation of a proletarian society in the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when he granted the Red Guards rights to destroy anything and persecute anyone they thought would be threats to his ideas. Although the Red Guards fulfilled their responsibilities of moving China towards Mao's visions, their actions ultimately led to deaths of thousands of innocent people, and the loss of China’s glorious ancient history, resembling an unconscious dictatorship with Mao being the original responsible person.
According to Mao Zedong, he was to enforce the creation of a proletarian society in the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when he granted the Red Guards rights to destroy anything and persecute anyone they thought would be threats to his ideas. Although the Red Guards fulfilled their responsibilities of moving China towards Mao's visions, their actions ultimately led to deaths of thousands of innocent people, and the loss of China’s glorious ancient history, resembling an unconscious dictatorship with Mao being the original responsible person.