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.

Date: 1953
Period: Cold War
Made by: United Nations Command psychological warfare (U.S. Army), serial 8724; issuer not named on the leaflet
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Leaflet
Issuer type: Military
Regime: Eisenhower Administration
Leader: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Audience: Enemy forces
Purpose: Demonize
Themes: War and the military, Home front
Event: Korean War
Techniques: Scapegoating
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: Wikimedia Commons (scan of a U.S. psychological warfare leaflet; image via psywarrior.com), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105; Commons file page)
U.S. federal government (Army psychological warfare); scan via psywarrior.com; Wikimedia Commons. The file page tags it public domain as a federal work; the leaflet names no issuer.

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.