The Red Guards carried out the Cultural Revolution by

protecting old customs against new reforms.

persecuting intellectuals and government officials.

freeing thousands of people from reeducation camps.

recruiting supporters of capitalistic policies.

B

Explanation:

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The correct answer is the second choice: persecuting intellectuals and government officials.

The Red Guards was a Chinese mass movement formed by young students mobilized by Mao Zedong to overthrow what he called the elitist and old elements of the society. In the framework of the Cultural Revolution, during 1966 and 1967 they carried out terrible excesses and the systematic destruction of Chinese heritage, public humiliation, and persecution of government officials and Confucian and Taoist intellectuals, since they were viewed as part of an old decaying elite.