How to pronounce “kula” in English

can reach out to the world.There's a mystic named Irwin Kula who says something very cool, "Everything is God in drag" right?"Everything is God in drag." Another divine, beautiful walking manifestation, another, another, that, there's stuff going

So how, for example, did a Stalin get-- just to pick one-- get the authority and people accepted his authorityto starve a quarter of the Ukraine, to kill all the Kulaks in the Soviet Union, and to send tens of millions of people to the gulag,and nobody questioned them?