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    Red Guards or war lords built up base to improve living conditions in order to develop human capital-economy-human capacity due to military strength. The Modern era was to create census-kill, dead rats, celebrate and make it to the newspaper to benefit population due to disease, grain therefore presenting a positive image from the government to private citizens. During this period political propaganda was widely published throughout the nation in order to gain support from citizens and military.

    During the Red Guards, "was the most turbulent period in the People's Republic's first of four decades was the first three years of the cultural Revolution." The Red Guards was a new regime that campaing to work on a new socialist culture. "The formation of the Red Guards played a key role in the course of the Cultural Revolution. Maoist leaders strongly encourage middle school, high school, and college youth to organize themselves into Red Guard units".

    The Red Guard were encourage to march foward on the road to learn about the great school and teaching of Mao Zedong, a group of Red Guards tean of boys and girls took a journey by foot out into other provinces. On September 11, was one of the deadlies confrontations between the Revolutionary Committee of the Workers and the Red Guards, according to the text The People's Republic, "incomplete statatistics , thirteen persons among the revolutionary masse were killed...,and one hundred thirty-five were wounded, seventeeen of them seriously."

    This particular massacre is well known because is one it tainted the Mao's history with blood shed. 

     

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