White Guard

The term White Guard may refer to:

  • White Guard (Finland), part of the White Army of the 1918 Finnish Civil War
  • White Guard (Slovenia), part of the Axis collaborators in Slovenia during the Second World War
  • Military arm of the Russian White movement
  • The White Guard, a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the Russian White movement


Famous quotes containing the words white and/or guard:

    “The villagers are untying their disguises, they are shaking hands.
    Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they
    accomplished, why am I cold?”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)