Reminds me of something..
"Red Guards, … groups of militant university and high school students formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76)."
"While engaging in marches, meetings, and frenzied propagandizing, Red Guard units attacked and persecuted local party leaders as well as schoolteachers and school officials, other intellectuals, and persons of traditional views."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Red-Guards