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Oct 29, 2015 · Reverend Jim Jones, a loyal supporter of Marxism, communism, and socialism, used Peoples Temple as a cover to promote his radical agenda, claiming during Peoples Temple’s later years to have infiltrated the church with his unorthodox beliefs.
- The Jonestown Report Volume 17, November 2015
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- The Jonestown Report Volume 17, November 2015
Jul 25, 2013 · On numerous occasions during Jonestown’s brief history, Jim Jones raised the possibility of uprooting the community and emigrating to the Soviet Union. Part of his motivation for this stemmed from his oft-stated – and seemingly firmly-held – belief that the USSR was the perfect society.
Jun 15, 2023 · Jim Jones has always had the greatest respect for the Soviet Union, not only as the avant-garde of socialist progress in the world, but as the most important force for peace, social justice, and liberation of oppressed peoples in the world.
Dec 18, 1978 · GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec. 17, 1978 -- In the hours before he led more than 900 followers in a mass suicide-murder rite, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered the transfer of more than $7 million in Peoples...
- Charles A. Krause
In a newspaper interview, Jones indicated that he would rather settle his commune in a communist country like China or the Soviet Union, and was saddened about his inability to do so. [165] Jones described Lenin and Stalin as his heroes, and saw the Soviet Union as an ideal society.
But an interesting sidelight to the Jonestown story is the fact that the Soviet ruling class also had ties with the Rev. Jim Jones and his cult. For one thing, it has been reported that Jones had regular contact with the Soviet, Cuban and other East European embassies in Georgetown, capital of Guyana.
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Jim Jones spun out paranoid fantasies of CIA machinations. He caught himself up in the dilemma of secretly being a socialist while publicly appearing a religious crusader.
