Jones stated before the speech, "For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland."
在演说前，琼斯声明道：“多年以来，我们一直保持着公开而明确的立场：美国政府不是我们的母亲，苏联才是我们精神的故土。