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title: '你們遠離家鄉 不能骨肉團圓 都是共產党害的 (You Are Far from Home and Cannot Be Reunited with Your Kin: the Communists Did It), leaflet 8724'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-8724-families-apart-1953/
description: 'A Chinese-language leaflet showing a family at home: an old man and two women at a table with a young boy standing by, drawn in a plain domestic style.'
section: Collection
---

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# 你們遠離家鄉 不能骨肉團圓 都是共產党害的 (You Are Far from Home and Cannot Be Reunited with Your Kin: the Communists Did It), leaflet 8724

A Chinese-language leaflet showing a family at home: an old man and two women at a table with a young boy standing by, drawn in a plain domestic style. Three bands of text state that 'you are far from home and cannot be reunited with your kin', and, on a red band, 'it is all the Communist Party's doing'. The tell is the one-line attribution of a family's separation to a single party.

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese (traditional characters, one simplified character)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Right, two vertical lines:] 你們遠離家鄉
不能骨肉團圓

[Red band, vertical:] 都是共產党害的

[Lower right, serial:] 8724
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
You are far from your home village; you cannot have your flesh and blood reunited. It is all the Communist Party's doing.
```

The red band's third character is printed in the simplified form 党 with traditional 產 before it; 產党 is transcribed as printed. Reading order is right to left.

[← 인민군 동지들이여! 그대들은 왜 동부전선에 배치되어 있는지 아는가? (Comrades of the People's Army, Do You Know Why You Are Posted on the Eastern Front?), leaflet 8321](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-leaflet-8321-eastern-front-1953/) [蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 (Soviet Russia Is Unwilling to Give China Full Aid), leaflet 7230 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-stalin-withholds-aid-leaflet-7230-1953/)

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