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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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