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zation was an ideal candidate for the plan of a Great Kurdistan. That
imperialist mask benefitted the PKK enormously after that.

So convincing is this mask that Westerners, who regard a Kurdish
state in the Middle East as being to their advantage, were very willing
to be taken in by it. The PKK made great use of that desire and sud-
denly began adopting imperialist language. That mask deceived com-
munists and extreme leftists, even in Turkey. This cunning and well-
crafted stratagem is in fact a well-known communist tactic. In order to
see that, we need to look at previous examples from history.

Stalin, for example, was one of the bloodiest representatives of the
communist ideology and used extremely harsh language against reli-
gion, as communism demanded:

"We carry on and will continue to carry on propaganda
against religious prejudices. …
The Party cannot be neutral
towards religion and does con-
duct anti-religious propaganda
against all and every religious
prejudice…" 6

That same Stalin who spoke
of anti-religious propaganda
against all faiths signed an
accord with the Russian Ort-
hodox Church in the early
years of the Second World
War, permitting the reope-
ning of tens of thousands of

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