White Guard

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 colaborators 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
* White Guard (move), a move in fourth-generation Pokémon games learnable only by the three Legendary Dragons of Sinnoh


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