On July 19 1979, as Sandinista forces entered the capital, a U. S. plane disguised with Red Cross markings had evacuated remaining members of the National Guard to Miami.

On the same day all the Worker's Guards united to form the Red Guard of Finland and a red lantern, a symbolic indicator of the coup d ' état, was lit in the tower of the Helsinki Workers Hall.

The Helsinki Guard, the strongest Red unit with its crucial strategic position in the capital of Finland had already become active on 23 – 25 January, aiming to secure a major power base for the Reds.

In the fierce battles against German troops on 28 – 29 April 1918 at Hauho and Tuulos, Syrjäntaka, female Red Guard platoons played a marked role.

Many Red Guard units collapsed under the weight of the assault and several detachments retreated in panic, while some units defended their posts relentlessly, and were able to slow the advance of the White Guards, who were unaccustomed to offensive warfare.

President Calvin Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, the Coast Guard, and the American Red Cross.

A civil war between the Finnish Red Guards and the White Guard ensued a few months later, with the " Whites " gaining the upper hand during the springtime of 1918.

* 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.

He participated in the October Revolution, and later joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk.

After the October Revolution, he joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk.

Trotsky founded the Red Army with an initial Red Guard organization, and a core soldiery of Red Guard militiamen and Chekist secret policemen ; conscription began in June 1918, and opposition to it was violently suppressed.

In the wake of the October Revolution, the old Russian Imperial Army had been demobilized ; the volunteer-based Red Guard was the Bolsheviks ' main military force, augmented by an armed military component of the Cheka, the Bolshevik state security apparatus.

In January, after significant reverses in combat, War Commissar Leon Trotsky headed the reorganization of the Red Guard into a Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army, in order to create a more professional fighting force.

While resistance to the Red Guard began on the very next day after the Bolshevik uprising, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the political ban became a catalyst for the formation of anti-Bolshevik groups both inside and outside Russia, pushing them into action against the new regime.

This detachment ( which became today's Red Guard of Senegal ) was the cadre around which the " Colonial Gendarmerie " was formed.

China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country.

On July 28, Red Guard representatives wrote to Mao, stating that mass purges and all such related social and political phenomena were justified and correct.

" A Red Guard crushes the crucifix, Buddha, and classical Chinese texts with his hammer ; 1967.

On August 22, 1966, Mao issued a notice to stop " all police intervention in Red Guard tactics and actions.

He was part of the Red Wedge comedy tour in 1986, which aimed to raise awareness of the social problems of the time, in support of the Labour Party.

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

Major figures in the Communist Party such as Trotsky and Red Army leaders, were killed, convicted of participating in plots to overthrow the Soviet government and Stalin.

The Soviet answer on 4 May admonished Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( CPY ) for failing to admit and correct its mistakes, and went on to accuse them of being too proud of their successes against the Germans, maintaining that the Red Army had saved them from destruction.

The Khmer Rouge () literally translated as Red Khmers was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia.

Anderson assisted in nailing the Red flag to the roof of the Junior Officers mess in Annan Parbat, in August 1945, after the victory of the Labour Party in the general election was confirmed.

In turn, Maoism became the theoretical basis of some third world revolutionary vanguard parties, e. g., the Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland, the Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, et al.

The Bolshevik authorities assigned to every unit of the Red Army a political commissar, or politruk, who had the authority to override unit commanders ' decisions if they ran counter to the principles of the Communist Party.

Most of the Italian leftish political parties of the time, including the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), denied the Red Brigades ' involvement in the murder and even the Red Brigades ' existence itself.

That following April, the Red Brigades announced that they had set up a Communist Combatant Party to " guide the working class.

In 1981, the Red Brigades had split into two factions: the majority faction of the Communist Combatant Party ( Red Brigades-PCC, led by Barbara Balzerani ) and the minority of the Union of Combatant Communists ( Red Brigades-UCC, led by Giovanni Senzani ).

According to the Mitrokhin Archives, the Italian Communist Party lodged several complaints with the Soviet ambassador in Rome regarding Czechoslovak support of the Red Brigades, but the Soviets were either unwilling or unable to stop the StB.

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

Proponents of continuity cite a variety of contributory factors: it is argued that it was Lenin, rather than Stalin, whose civil war measures introduced the Red Terror with its hostage taking and internment camps, that it was Lenin who developed the infamous Article 58, and who established the autocratic system within the Communist Party.

** Red Scare: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

* September 13 – TASS reports on clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards.

As the Red Scare progressed, the association with communism concerned some members as well as supporters and Hay, a dedicated member of the Communist Party for 15 years, stepped down as the society's leader.

Especially interested in the literary contacts made at the meetings, Wright formally joined the Communist Party in late 1933 and as a revolutionary poet wrote numerous proletarian poems (" I Have Seen Black Hands ", " We of the Streets ", " Red Leaves of Red Books ", for example ), The New Masses and other left-wing periodicals.

A year later, the Red Guard factions were dismantled entirely ; Mao feared that the chaos they caused — and could still cause — might harm the very foundation of the Communist Party of China.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

The flowers of the ' Hopi Red Dye ' amaranth were used by the Hopi ( a tribe in the western United States ) as the source of a deep red dye.

* 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

Red Bordeaux is called claret in the United Kingdom.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The usage is roughly equivalent to the term " Commie ", " Red " or " pinko " in the United States during the same period.

A similar policy applies to potential donors to the Australian Red Cross ' Blood Service, precluding people who have spent a cumulative time of six months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

The Singapore Red Cross precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of three months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

The United States consulate and other Westerners in Shanghai were concerned about the approach of " Red General " Chiang, as his army was seizing control of large areas of the country in the Northern Expedition.

* Red Bull Cola has been available in the United States since 2008.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.

* 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for " conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute ".

Artificial carbonation was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1936, with Watney ’ s experimental pasteurised beer Red Barrel.

, the Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships ( 11 ) of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens ( 24 ) and Toronto Maple Leafs ( 13 ).

Nevertheless the strategic interest of the United States in the Red Sea basin and the considerations of security and world peace make it necessary that the country has to be linked with our ally Ethiopia.

* Earliest day on which National Wear Red Day can fall, while February 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Friday in February ( United States )

* 1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and worldwide centre for diplomacy and the most important UN international co-operation centre with New York thanks to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.