{"id":13123,"date":"2013-02-17T21:49:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=13123"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:01:54","slug":"ussrresettlementsplash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13123","title":{"rendered":"Possible Resettlement Locations in USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=35388\">question<\/a>  of whether Jim Jones ever seriously contemplated uprooting the Jonestown community for a second move \u2013 this time to the politically-pure (at least in his estimation) location of the Soviet Union \u2013 is one which likely will never be definitely answered. Yet there were several in the Jonestown leadership who argued for consideration of the idea, and in late October 1978, three members of the Jonestown hierarchy \u2013 Gene Chaikin, Tom Grubbs and Dick Tropp \u2013 wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/USSRResettlement.pdf\">memo<\/a> analyzing several specific locations for possible resettlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The two-page document acknowledges that, wherever they consider going, it will be colder than what they are used to. \u201cAll available \u2018southern\u2019 areas in the U.S.S.R. fall in latitudes equivalent to Pittsburgh on the south, Albany in the center, and Montreal on the north,\u201d the memo begins. Whether there are specific areas with warmer microclimates is unknown, and several times the authors admit they are relying upon deduction, assumption and speculation in the absence of detailed information. For those reasons, the memo concludes, \u201cWe strongly suggest that a party of our people go to any of the areas suggested by the Soviets, during the winter, to make a first hand inspections of the conditions and an evaluation of their suitability for our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Locations, Geography and Climate in USSR<\/b>, RYMUR 89-4286-GG-1-C1 \u2013 GG-1-C2<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/USSRResettlement.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13122\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":13109,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88289,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13123\/revisions\/88289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}