Page 238 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

This constitution of the organization in question is being
imposed on the Kurds by the PKK. The fact that the constitution of a
communist dictatorship is being imposed on our beloved Kurds, who
are part and parcel of us, shows the kind of plan in operation for the
Southeast of Turkey first, and then the Middle East. In order to better
grasp this, let us have a closer look at the KCK's objectives.

1. The dictatorship system and the deification
of its leaders

Dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Kim Il- sung,
who ran the system in communist regimes, engaged in
mass social conditioning programs that almost resulted in

them being all but deified. The term "cult of personality"
nicely encapsulates this idea of "deification of the leader."
Communist dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and

Kim Il- sung were deified in order to ensure the obedience
of the masses. Sometimes the leader would be personified
as a sun shining down on his people, while sometimes giant
statues would be erected, and people would be made to
prostrate themselves before them. All this was intended to
portray the communist leader as a guide who could never
go wrong and to encourage his being regarded as a so-

called "divine entity" who would bestow happiness and
joy on those who believed in him.
PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan also uses this tactic of deification,

which began with Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, the
first communist revolution.

One can see the effect of this tendency in Item 11 of the KCK Con-
tract under the heading "The Founder and Leader of Kurdistan Demo-

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