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title: '''People of Grenada'' leaflet (Operation Urgent Fury)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grenada-people-of-grenada-leaflet-1983/
description: 'A halftone photograph of armed, helmeted soldiers advancing across open ground, with a white text panel set over the lower centre: ''People of Grenada…'
section: Collection
---

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[!['People of Grenada' leaflet (Operation Urgent Fury)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/grenada-people-of-grenada-leaflet-1983.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/grenada-people-of-grenada-leaflet-1983.jpg)

# 'People of Grenada' leaflet (Operation Urgent Fury)

A halftone photograph of armed, helmeted soldiers advancing across open ground, with a white text panel set over the lower centre: 'People of Grenada: your Caribbean neighbors with U.S. support have come to Grenada to restore democracy and insure your safety.' The tell is the virtue-word pairing, 'democracy' and 'safety', offered as the whole account of the operation, with no figure, date or named authority behind either word.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PEOPLE OF GRENADA

YOUR CARIBBEAN NEIGHBORS WITH
U.S. SUPPORT HAVE COME TO
GRENADA TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY
AND INSURE YOUR SAFETY.
```

Read from a 500 px photograph; the printed text is fully legible. The English text is the original, so no translation is given.

[← TASS statement on the 'unidentified intruder' (Korean Air Lines Flight 007), FBIS Daily Report, 6 September 1983](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-statement-unidentified-intruder-kal007-1983/) ["Keine neuen US-Raketen in Westeuropa!": peace manifestation, Halle →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-halle-peace-manifestation-banners-1983/)

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