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TIL that the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada was established in 1979 after the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement overthrew the previous Grenadian administration. Grenada was still a commonwealth realm during this time, making it a socialist state with Elizabeth II as its monarch.

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