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Red Guards quickly got the message, and expressions of their contrite feeling filled the Peking press. Red Guards in the capital pledged "to be pupils of the workers, peasants and soldiers, and rapidly catch up with the hundreds of millions of revolutionary people now advancing with big strides." They admitted that not the Red Guards but "the workers, peasants and soldiers were the main force" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in proletarian education. Worst of all, "Red Guards in many places expressed their determination to go to the rural areas, border areas, factories, mines and basic units in order to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants." That, in the current lexicon of China, is the Maoist version of exile to Siberia.