The Watchtower teaches that the United Nations and Governments will turn on the Witnesses after first destroying Religion.
This is what they say in their booklet Conspiracy Against Democracy, 1940, written by Rutherford, page 48:
"The leaders and rulers of this world, religions, political, commercial and their allies all unite in their opposition and persicution of those who bear testamony to the name of Jehovah and his King. When Jehovah's witnesses make know publicly that it is the purpose of God, in the near future, at the battle of Armageddon, to destroy all opposers of his kingdom, that message greatly disturbs and angers the dictators and their religious allies. Therefore, they all set about to stop Jehoah's witnesses and put them to complete silence."
I had never heard this version.
Bryan