Red Scarf Girl Politics Quotes

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Quote #10

It was full of red: red slogans, red posters, red armbands, and red flags. A huge poster of Chairman Mao in a green army uniform, waving to the Red Guards from the Tienanmen rostrum, covered almost an entire wall. There were posters of Chairman Mao's poems written in his own calligraphy. (15.5)

Fittingly, the Red Guard Committee Office is full of red—red posters, pictures, plaques, red everything. We know that red is the color of communism, so this makes sense. It's also really overpowering and in your face, much the same way the politics of the Red Guards are to the people.