A cuckoo is a particular bird which is too lazy to build a nest of its own, or to bring up his own birdies. So it looks for a nest of another smaller bird where recently the first egg was laid. In a moment at the bird's lunchtime, the cuckoo quickly puts its egg in the nest and splits. The returning bird cannot figure out what happened and faithfully sits on the invader's egg. After the little birds hatch the cuckoo turns out bigger, screams more and gets more to eat. Quickly the nest becomes too small for all of them. No problem for the little cuckoo, he simply kicks out the real offsprings to die and ends up the only "surviving child". This much surprises the involuntary fosterparents, especially when their bird takes off with the cuckoos.
In a very similar way, the GBC established some of ISKCON's gurus, claiming them to be the rightful successors of SP's temples. Soon after they had managed to get some disciples, they started to kick out their godbrothers, totally disregarding that they had actually convinced the new disciples to join, and they had actually started those temples. Since many godbrothers, especially grihastas, were economically dependent on the infrastructure established by them, they tried hard to adjust to the new way ISKCON was turning. Upset, and confused most of them finally left and some of them joined the new leaders with a similar attitude: to use ISKCON and other devotees for increasing their personal assets and sense gratification. One clear symptom of that is that ISKCON GBC has gigantic zones impossible to take care of. So they invented the regional secretary, a position unheard of in SP's times. Temple presidents lost most of their power and the local devotees are never asked whether they like or dislike their leader or the new changes of a leader. Thus many positions in ISKCON became occupied by many impure persons. It practically became some kind of position mafia shared amongst a group with apparent national and ethnic preferences. Those GBC's and regional secretaries systematically tried to quiet the protest of local godbrothers and impose their often ridiculous rule. If one of them became publicly exposed, the others came running to cut his zone in pieces and distribute amongst themselves. No consideration of whether they had time for that additional service, or whether they spoke the language was given. Again, local devotees were mostly disregarded. Frequently we have seen that those positions actually were misused to squander resources or simply steal for personal enrichment from SP's mission. In the name of service to SP the GBC kicked out numberless SP disciples, lost many of SP's temples and farms, offended SP's godbrother SSM (and others), and disregarded the suffering and opinion of their members, and planted the seed of distrust amongst all. Actually thinking members were no more welcomed, and discussions about problems were often impossible due to a bureaucratic IRON CURTAIN which they established. The GBC either changed or often publicly ridiculed local leaders. As long as someone produced money and did not ask many questions he was highly welcomed.
Even though at one time Krishna exposed all the regional secretaries together with their zonal GBC's in Southern Europe, nevertheless the GBC's maintained their policy of disregarding the local devotees and distributed Southern Europe to old GBC members who had already badly failed in other parts of the world.