Rule #1. Never trust a stalinist. Ever. Now does Jim Jones...

Rule #1. Never trust a stalinist. Ever.

Now does Jim Jones qualify as a stalinist? Well he gets a few ticks.

"In 1975, Rev. Jim Jones, the religious cult leader and civil rights activist, hinted at things to come. “I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me,” he said during a sermon at his Peoples Temple church in San Francisco. Just two years later, on Nov. 18, 1978, those words became reality when more than 900 people, one-third of them children, died during what would be known as the Jonestown Massacre, one of the worst mass killings in American history."

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