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while speaking to his people, Pharaoh said that he taught the people the
truth they needed to know, and that they shouldn't search for any other
truth besides what he taught them: "I only show you what I see myself
and I only guide you to the path of rectitude." (Qur'an, 40:29)
Pharaoh's modern representatives are the Soviet Union and all the
other Communist regimes of the 20th century that attempted to establish
totalitarian regimes. In any totalitarianism system, society is totally
shaped by the State. People are physically governed by State oppression
and mentally by propaganda. The model of Pharaoh's totalitarian sys-
tem, as described in the Qur'an, was revived in the 20th century by dic-
tators like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha,
as we mentioned earlier, forbade his countrymen from practicing any re-
ligious faith. He closed all places of worship and advertised the govern-
ment he'd founded as the "world's first atheist State."

The Idolization of Leaders

In the Qur'an (28:38), God tells us that Pharaoh tried to make him-
self a god in the eyes of the people, as can plainly be seen in Pharaoh's
words to those around him: "Councilmen, I do not know of any other
god for you apart from me." Egyptian history shows us how its
pharaohs described themselves as "gods in this world."
Communist regimes wielded the same kind of psychology.
Dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and North Korea's Kim Il-sung initi-
ated programs of mass brainwashing to make themselves seem as gods
in the eyes of their peoples. This "cult of personality" was an expression
of the policy of "idolizing the leaders."
This tendency towards idolization started first with Lenin, leader of
the first Communist revolution in Russia. Indeed, some of the writings
Lenin left behind show a noticeable "aura of religion"—but a religion of
idols. Lenin organized the Communist Party as a kind of non-religious
sect. Upon his death, Party members held a huge ceremony in which
they addressed Lenin's corpse with liturgical words such as: "Comrade
Lenin, we swear we will carry out your orders." Lenin's body was mum-
mified, like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's, and placed in an elaborate
tomb.