美国人民圣殿教教主Jim Jones认为自己是列宁的转世，因为厌恶美国的种族矛盾和不平等于是创办了人民圣殿教以收留不同种族肤色的人，并在圭亚那建立了琼斯镇，打算在此建立一个社会主义的地上天国。Jones最终引导镇上所有人服毒自杀。 该人曾说过：
Okay, thank you, comrade. Thank you, comrade. For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, (Pause) but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland.“好的，谢谢你，同志。谢谢你，同志。多年来，我们一直公开表达我们的同情，认为美国政府不是我们的母亲，（停顿）而苏联才是我们精神上的祖国。”在Jones与苏联驻圭亚那领事Фёдор Тимофее(Feodor Timofeyev)的对话中，Тимофее提到：
Well, for me, it's a great privilege uh, to be in your community to see what I've heard from the representatives of the Peoples Temple in Georgetown about your successes, about development of your project, about your (pause) (unintelligible word) in many, many fields. What I was heard [told], and then was seen by the picture, now I've been their eyewitnesses, and uh, with me, the Soviet people, the Soviet press will know much more about this wonderful, this so dear for us community, which we — as I called before — the first American socialist and the communist community.
“对我来说，能够来到你们的社区是一种莫大的荣幸，嗯，我从乔治敦的人民圣殿代表那里听到了关于你们成功的消息，关于你们项目的发展，关于你们在许多许多领域中的（停顿）（听不清的词）。我所听到的，然后通过图片看到的，现在我亲眼见证了，嗯，和我一起，苏联人民，苏联媒体将更多地了解这个美妙的、对我们来说如此珍贵的社区，正如我之前所说的——美国第一个社会主义和共产主义社区。”
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